Word: looming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this point, the novel assumes all the surrealistic proportions of a Latin American novel. Much of the book, in fact, has the quality of being oversized, larger than life. Pain and desperation loom hellishly large yet remain real enough so that they can hurt and relieve at once. There is something enormously energetic and liberating about a book that teeters on the edge of familiar life and grandiose invention. Knopf claims "Eberstadt is a writer to watch." Even more, she is a writer to read...
...awesome breath control and dazzling technique stunned audiences from the Sistine Chapel to Covent Garden. Of his 24 oratorios in English, only the redoubtable Messiah is a concerthall staple, and his best-loved instrumental works are such occasional pieces as the Water Music. Oddly, for one who used to loom so large, Handel awaits popular rediscovery...
...bareboat business has meant smooth sailing for virtually all concerned. But some storm clouds now loom. The Treasury Department's recent tax-reform proposals would eliminate the investment tax credit and remove other breaks that yacht investors use. Says Sail Belize's Gegg: "If the changes are drastic, they could wipe out our industry and many of the boatbuilding companies as well...
Jarmusch transposes borredoin and disappointment into a deadpan dramatic bass-line that lops along with its loom-pah-loom-pah Sereanun' Jay Hawkins soundtrack. The camera just watches these characters, from above or below like a surreal intruder, or straight-on as though it were positioned behind a one-way mirror. They don't perform; they just are and sometimes they just are not. The camera watches them watching television, not talking, avoiding each other, waiting, arguing impatiently when forced to think about what is, to them, the painfully obvious. Punctuated with blackouts at the end of every scene, Paradiseis...
...deficits that now loom so large were unimaginable just a few years ago. The U.S. had a balanced budget in 1960 and again in 1970. How did we get to a deficit of nearly 5% of G.N.P. in 1984? The answer in short is that Government spending has increased sharply without a corresponding increase in taxes to pay for it. But this short answer hides four important facts about the way that the composition of spending and taxes has changed...