Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baseball, even after its much-proclaimed 1998 renaissance, still does. The final four games of the Yanks' 125-win march into history got, according to early estimates, the worst Nielsens of any Series, breaking last year's nadir. And that Series was exciting (or so I hear). All the shiny new ballparks are full -- at least when McGwire or Sosa is playing. But these days, it's the ratings that matter, and baseball is getting dangerously near (gasp!) hockey territory. Maybe if Fox could put a camera in Don Zimmer's belly button...
...YORK: The Dow was up again on Wednesday morning. In Japan, the yen has stablilized. So your sagging portfolio is finally safe, right? Wrong. TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec believes that the bargain-hunters who've been buying since Tuesday's nadir (which represented a 10 percent correction of the Dow's July high) will be disappointed with their purchases. "Just because the stocks are cheaper, doesn't mean they're cheap," he says. "According to fundamental measures, we're still in nosebleed territory. The markets are still in a lot of trouble...
...error occurred while processing this directive] Decline it has. At Tuesday's nadir, the Dow had lost 762.87 points from its record high of 9,337.97 on July 17. And although the indicator is still up 8.4 percent on the year, that figure was once 18 percent. Is the boom of the Clinton years finally over? Kadlec says that with so many people with money in the stock market, recession worries could be self-fulfilling. "The effects of Asia are hitting U.S. companies hard, but consumers at home are still spending," he says. "But if the stock market stays gloomy...
...these movies were small, intense, black and white, ideally suited to the psychological realism of the Stanislavskian Method, as it came to be known; ideally suited, as well, to Brando's questing spirit. But in the '50s, as he reached the height of his powers, Hollywood sank to the nadir of its strength. Competing with TV, it embraced color, wide screen, spectacle--and was looking for bold, uncomplicated heroes to fill its big, empty spaces. Brando looked (and felt) ludicrous in this context...
...more complex. Though colorful tales of Simpson's trollops and narcotics abuse have been documented in the past, Fleming cleverly uses Simpson's life to explore Hollywood's entire dark side, which has spawned such troubled figures as Heidi Fleiss, O.J. Simpson and River Phoenix. The book reaches its nadir in a chapter where readers learn more than they want to about the producer's unsuccessful timed-release testosterone implants in his buttocks...