Word: growing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVER since the ivy began to grow on Wrigley's walls 73 years ago, the relationship between Chicago and its Cubs has been a part of that baseball tradition. The purists ask: why would fans be so fascinated by a perennial loser that they would fill up Wrigley on so many summer afternoons? Is it the fact that the Cubs always lose that draws in the crowd...
Needless to say, things grow far, far more complicated than this, and DeLillo develops his intricate plot with cinematic bravura. There are flashes back and forward in time, and jump cuts between the conspirators and Oswald, who is growing up to become exactly the kind of person the CIA renegades had planned to invent: a malcontent and misfit with a known fondness for Castro and guns. Slowly, dimly, Oswald begins to realize that he is being watched, people have designs on his destiny. Someone who knows what is cooking spells it out for him: "You're a quirk of history...
Some things grow better with age, but the minimum wage is not one of them. For seven years it has languished at $3.35 an hour, and the purchasing power it provides, ravaged by inflation, has dropped steadily: in 1975 dollars, it is worth only $1.55. A breadwinner earning $3.35 an hour would have to work 52 hours a week every week just to clear the $9,044 official poverty level for a family of three...
...danger of looking back at the expense of anticipating the future. As populations continue to soar in the Third World, the U.S. will represent a smaller and smaller proportion of the world's population. And economically, the Far East has already achieved unparalleled influence that will only continue to grow...
Hoffman draws us into the minds of each of the main characters to show us what each one is like, but the one we get to know the best is Amanda, who daily practices her floor routine to Madonna's "True Blue" and hopes she will never grow above 5'2" so that she can go to the Olympics. We watch her push herself practice after practice, with her upcoming meet as the only object of her attention. But we also watch her throw up after every practice, break out into sweat in her sleep, lose weight and pass...