Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than anything else, it was Burns' management of the nation's money supply that baffled and angered his many critics. During 1972. Burns allowed the money supply to grow sharply, leading to charges that he was trying to help his friend Nixon get re-elected by making sure that the economy was going full throttle. Whatever the motive, the move was a mistake: a year or so later, the aftereffects of the easy-money policy of 1972 combined with soaring food prices and the skyrocketing cost of oil to produce the roaring inflation...
...that the fault does not lie entirely in the stars. Everyone knows this is not a particularly heroic historical moment. It is difficult to find many real-life heroes to identify with, and this thins the soil out of which larger-than-life movie figures can be expected to grow. Beyond that, not nearly so many movies are being made nowadays, so there are fewer opportunities for the kind of relentless exposure that built the great star careers of the past. Finally, the movie audience now is much smaller, less habitual in its attendance and more urban and cosmopolitan. That...
...film characters, American arche types. Nowadays this is a rarer and perhaps more valuable achievement than making a string of perfect movie master pieces. These heroes?larger than ones found in ordinary life, but not entirely dis connected from it either?are not made in a single film. They grow out of a lot movies and eventually turn them all into mere incidents in the larger and more absorbing drama of the star career. Consider Eastwood's moralistic killer, whose cold eyes are set off by his incongruously boyish voice and smile, or Reynolds' good-ole-boy con man, shooting...
...hospital officials contacted said that the question of responsibility for these life-and-death decisions is far from being resolved and that, in fact, the problem of accountability will continue to grow...
Joanne Cipolla, a Chicago-based guitarist who specializes in "original folk rock tunes," said she thought the orgy was helping folk music to grow at Harvard because it introduces people to it informally...