Word: monsterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ECONOMISTS AND CORPORATE EXECUTIVES ARE NOT USUALLY thought of as disciples of Dr. Victor Frankenstein. But they too have created a monster, and it has suddenly found a voice--not Boris Karloff's this time, but Pat Buchanan's. In his strident demands for trade protection can be heard the long-mute anger of workers who feel both injured and insulted by free traders in the academy, business and politics: injured by the loss of jobs and income to foreign competition; insulted because too many free traders have airily dismissed their pain as either illusory or inconsequential...
...prolific with ideas about how to help the losers. The lead idea is retraining, but it would have to be conducted on a scale difficult to finance at a time of pinched federal budgets. The alternative, however, might be a protectionist spirit that keeps reviving, just as Frankenstein's monster kept coming back in movie sequel after sequel...
...This sinister and eclectic agenda has not pestered the body politic since the early years of the century. What is it? Well, I'll take Buchanan's own self-designation, one that he is obviously, and perhaps correctly, convinced that few in the electorate will ever research. This recycled monster is good, old-fashioned, turn-of-the-century Populism...
...famous names on the covers--can be traced back to the mid-1960s. Then, Jacqueline Susann and her husband-- press agent Irving Mansfield so relentlessly promoted her on TV and wherever else prospective readers could be buttonholed that Susann's novel Valley of the Dolls (1966) became a monster best seller. Other novels followed from her teeming pen, and they were successfully marketed not so much as new books but as new Jackie Susanns...
...third, fourth and fifth. One gag that holds up is the Great Concavity. This is a chunk of New England turned over to Canada and used as a dump site by the U.S. The method of garbage disposal suggests that environmentalism has ended up in the dustbin of history: monster catapults situated near Boston hurl their toxic loads northward...