Word: lull
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...slangs generated then were interminably publicized. Like the beads and the Afros and gestures and costumes and theatrical rages, slang became an ingredient of the national mixed-media pageant. Now, with more depressingly important things to do (earn a living, for example), Americans may feel a sense of cultural lull...
...movement's leaders are ebullient about their issue's general popularity. "We are in something of a lull," concedes Harold Willens, a wealthy Los Angeles businessman who is leading the campaign to approve the freeze referendum in California. One reason for the uneasiness in the movement is its very success. In less than two years it mounted the largest protest rally in the nation's history: more than 700,000 supporters jammed New York's Central Park in June. In August it failed by only two votes to be endorsed by the U.S. House of Representatives...
JUST LAST SPRING, the civil war in El Salvador monopolized the evening news and morning papers. But since the U.S. backed elections in March brought the extreme right to power, there has been a relative lull in the fighting. The media, understandably busy with conflicts in the Falkland Islands and Lebanon, have shifted their attention elsewhere, giving many the impression that all is well...
...they got a start on it." The cartoonist would like to put some distance between the reasons for his hiatus and those of his Pulitzer-prizewinning colleague Jeff MacNelly, 34, who gave up his editorial-page turf in 1981, only to return earlier this year. "This is simply a lull in the action," says Trudeau. "It is not, repeat, not, a mid-life crisis...
...momentary lull, Abu Said, Frey and I drive quickly to my apartment and to TIME'S office to check for damage. As we are climbing the stairs to my apartment the shells start coming in again from the gunboats. We are trapped in the stairwell for five minutes or so as the building shakes. Then we rush over to the TIME office, which is something like a bunker, since it is on the ground floor and set into a hillside. For the next half an hour we sit and drink warm beer and listen to the shells whistling overhead...