Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks only. It's near Rte. 128, and the very smallest computer firms start out here, in the brick office parks put up in the 50s. When they leave, different businesses move in to the treeless complexes. One parking lot has a dance studio, a musical instrument store...
...very erratic business. Say you're an actor and you're performing for twelve weeks and then you wait a half-year for work. I'm still not sure about why I became such a heavy user. I think I used coke as a manipulative instrument. Men traditionally have used coke for sexual favors. I dispensed it for creative favors. I mean, I did get two or three jobs done in a very short time...
...that time the bomb was thought of solely as a weapon. Some hold the dark theory that the U.S. used it against Japan in order to intimidate the Soviets, but clearly its central mission was to win and end a war. After that, however, the bomb became an instrument of policy rather than deed-a great cocked fist that would show off its power in tests from time to time, but otherwise remain immobile and silent, looming ever larger in the world's imagination. In a sense, the world's imagination became its accomplice. For 36 years...
...look straight at its drab snout and recall quite clearly what it once did and still can do. A new book of drawings by Hiroshima's survivors is called Unforgettable Fire. It is time to remember the fire. Whatever considerable use the bomb once served as a diplomatic instrument is passing very quickly now, at a speed directly proportional to the hope of stemming proliferation. But there is still the hope of stemming madness by invoking reality...
...After all, by the time most of us got to him, he looked pretty silly in those white jump suits with the high collars, and that plasticene pompadour. He was singing in Vegas then--our most improbable city--or out in Honolulu, doing "Heartbreak Hotel" with a three hundred instrument string section complete with French horns. It wasn't Elvis. We thought it was and that's why we thought it was stupid. All those hundreds of thousands of leisure suited fans he drew must have been stupid, too, if that's what they wanted to see. But they didn...