Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American MX, which is still under development as well as under heated debate, is about the size of the SS-19, but would have as many warheads as the SS-18. However, even if the controversial MX is eventually deployed, there will be many fewer MXs than Soviet monster missiles...
Galvin found that people with chronic pain either focus their lives on it, or consider it a monster to outwit and a goad to greater achievement. Says she: "President Kennedy, whose New Hampshire primary campaign I covered for TIME, was one of the latter. My husband, who has arthritis, is another. If ever I am confronted with chronic pain, I will try to remember these profiles in courage...
...that rustling in the bushes? Who are those tiny green figures scurrying through the twilight? Why did they bite that nice old lady in the kneecap? When did they start multiplying like rabid rabbits? Where will it all end? In movie theaters throughout North America, where these monster-pranksters have every intention of overrunning the opposition and leaving the Hollywood army of would-be summer smashes dazed in their wake. Ugh! Good Lord! Eek! Gasp! Aaarrrgh!. Gremlins is coming...
...hideous, wrynecked, blubbering, red-haired boy in a nightgown, who appears to have received a poke ... and to be holding it up for the contemplation of a kneeling woman, so horrible in her ugliness, that she would stand out from the rest of the company as a monster." The painting in question was Millais's Christ in the Carpenter's Shop, 1849-50, whose image-little Jesus hurting his hand on a nail, in prefiguration of Golgotha-might strike a modern eye as lavishly sentimental and winsome, but was overrealistic to Dickens...
...another cliffhanger in a long-running drama that has featured more narrow escapes than Raiders of the Lost Ark. Once again, the Latin American debt monster was terrifying bankers. Argentina was threatening to ignore a March 31 deadline for paying $500 million in interest to its creditors around the world...