Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation goes imperfectly on. Teen-agers commit suicide, for reasons that baffle. The homeless sleep in our doorways or on warm-air grates. The monster deficit, which some say is the equivalent of nuclear doom, presides over the vestibule. America has been on a spending binge for years, and the arithmetic is ominous...
...points up the risks of deregulation. Generally, deregulation is laudable, but it never should have been applied to banks. Deregulating banks cancels out the valid reasons for having some form of cost, safety and volume control over the money supply. Deregulation in this case will become a monster and a lighted fuse...
...places. The citizens of Bhopal lived near the Union Carbide plant because they sought to live there. The plant provided jobs, the pesticide more food. Bhopal was a modern parable of the risks and rewards originally engendered by the Industrial Revolution: Frankenstein's wonder becoming Frankenstein's monster...
...text is simplified but not simpleminded, and if the sins have been scaled down, the sinner has not. As Jonah and his shipmates are buffeted by the tempest, the wind seems to blow from the page, and the great fish that consumes him soon turns from a monster into a seaborne aquarium. One half expects to see a sign on its vaulted rib cage warning OCCUPANCY BY MORE THAN 1,000 FISH AND 1 PROPHET IS UNLAWFUL AND DANGEROUS. Despite his whimsy, Illustrator-Narrator Hutton violates neither religious nor literary scruples. Happy endings, after all, are not exclusive to fairy...
...only wonder if Szware was worried about in timidating males insecure about muscle bound women. The persons Supergirl bashes are two painfully stereotypical redneck truckers with ungentlemanly designs on Supergirl's too, too solid flesh. She can't even bring herself to hit the amazingly unthreatening invisible monster that tears up the countryside, choosing for some unknown reason a more ladylike lightning bolt. And why is it that someone who can fly has to crawl across a shaking floor instead of flying across...