Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heart (and it has one), Crimes of Passion is about the sad, sybaritic pleasures embraced by men too old to grow up. And the hooker-dominatrix is really a dark angel who gives herself whole-bodied to her clients' midnight dreams. No less, Turner throws herself headfirst into the film, hyperventilating on the medium's potential for erogenous adventure. This is a clever, daring, mad performance in a movie that is just as reckless. Crimes of Passion and its more lurid brethren in the skin trade are not for everyone, but they should at least be available...
...still pumping adequately. He napped two hours a day, then revived with a cold shower rigged for 80 lbs. of pressure per square inch over his enormous body-and great gulps of Cutty Sark Scotch. Ike went through a heart attack, ileitis and a stroke but seemed to grow in kindness and wisdom as if to counterbalance his physical deterioration. He was as effective when he finished as when he started, but he was nowhere near as vigorous, physically or mentally...
...office-seeker, the exchange actually was as telling as the networks would have us believe. But we suspect that in England, for instance, where upheavals such as the Watergate crisis are viewed as periodic outbreaks of overblown national hysteria, viewers were shaking their heads and asking: Will Americans ever grow...
...budget deficit threatens to grow much bigger, but is it worth the worry...
...recession would reduce Government tax revenues and boost spending for such programs as unemployment insurance and food stamps. As a result, the deficit would grow worse than it already is. Chase Econometrics, a consulting firm in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., estimates that even a brief, six-month recession would increase the budget shortfall to $300 billion...