Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Rubin's Lady Macbeth is not as consistently convincing as her better half. In her near-hysterical rendering of Lady Macbeth's opening speeches, Rubin seems to have approached her character as if the lady was pathologically insane at the onset of the play. Although her energy is limitless, and sometimes truly frightening, we are deprived of seeing Lady Macbeth's great descent into madness: only the amplitude of her performance, never the content, varies...
...streaked with melancholy. She is an alien in 1960; she will be stranded too when she returns to the '80s, where the boulevard of possibilities has narrowed to a blind alley. Reconciling with Charlie or starting life over without him seem dour alternatives after her glimpse at the limitless prospects of her youth. Like the Jimmy Stewart character in Frank Capra's 1946 It's a Wonderful Life, she receives the gift of second sight. But Peggy Sue's flashback convinces her that she must treasure what she has lost, not what she has achieved. A bittersweet dream...
Fiber-optic cables, hooked directly to consumers' homes, will eventually provide reception of almost limitless numbers of cable-TV channels and other more exotic services. For example, a joint venture of French communications companies has broken new ground by stringing fiber-optic cables to the homes of 1,500 telephone customers in the southern town of Biarritz and setting up an experimental two-way video system in which customers see one another while they chat...
Despite their sophistication and limitless purses, the travelers have only the vaguest idea of what makes the world work outside their bedroom doors. Fascism is on the rise in Italy, but to the myopic Americans, Mussolini seems only to be "looking after the poor, and keeping a strong government together; also, there was talk that he might sign a peace treaty within the year with the Vatican." Irma, heading back to the States, is consoled by expectations: "I am beginning to think 1929 is going to be a great year for us. There is nothing that makes me feel more...
...increasingly clear that a watershed of possibly historic dimensions had arrived for the beleaguered Third World petropowers. In the '70s, when oil-price hikes seemed limitless, eager representatives from the industrialized world made pilgrimages to the doors of the oil-rich, looking to buy petroleum and to sell everything from weapons to steel mills. In the Middle East, the cascade of petrodollars brought about novel configurations of regional power, with Saudi Arabia taking a leading role. Bankers rushed to lend billions of dollars to such oil producers as Mexico and Nigeria, which were embarked on crash development programs. Always there...