Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...step closer to his goal of developing the most powerful communications empire in the world. After the deal is completed, the U.S. circulation of Murdoch's magazines, which include New York and New Woman, will total some 25 million. That will put News Corp. at roughly the same level as Time Inc., the largest U.S. magazine publisher...
...Show) and a down-on-his-heels boxer (Fat City), second-string to a big ape (the 1976 King Kong), a gentle lover and a sick slasher (he was both in Jagged Edge). "I like to mix it up as much as possible," says Bridges. "It lowers my boredom level...
...most arcane sports, which include many of the Olympic events, are nearly always learned late and hard, in the U.S. after playing baseball and football for a while. Speed does come naturally to the beautiful racehorses of the running track, like Florence Griffith Joyner, though at the world-class level science kicks in and a specialized knowledge is required. Hobbled running backs reach uncertainly for their hamstrings in panic, but sprinters know every muscle according to its isolated throb, like a subtle note of music distinguishable from all the others by some slight tone, especially now that the concert...
...Olympians don't often look so far ahead or behind. They literally put the one foot after the other that the rest of us frequently talk about, tolerating a certain level of anguish for a special plane of excellence. They cover themselves in tape and rosin and chalk, and sometimes glory. They take off in sprays of sawdust and alight in splashes of gold. They're driven, until they're driven out. Olympians are said to have a glow about them, and not just the glow of beaded sweat. But they make others glow as well. They mention who they...
...though he were able to follow his characters into slang or thought disorder not because he identifies with their madness or participates in their emotion, but because he is such a knowledgeable and transparent narrator. From moment to moment, on the level of detail, DeLillo lets the reader understand, but he refuses to feel the material or to give it a larger meaning...