Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan they go by names like the Eagle's Nest, the Spike, the Mine Shaft and the Anvil. In San Francisco they are called the Brig and the Ambush. They are all homosexual "leather" bars that cater to macho style and sadomasochistic taste. Along with some bathhouses, sex-gadget shops, magazines and private clubs, they make an increasingly visible subculture in the gay world. That leather fringe is now also visible on movie screens, as the backdrop for a film that has been denounced and picketed by homosexuals: William Friedkin's Cruising, the story of a gay murderer...
...this way Cold Storage brushes aside "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," rushing to the center of our minds and burning there a reminder of our capacity for evil and neglect. We see that we have the capacity to put people in cold storage--out of sight and out of mind...
...comes home to rural Georgia determined to overthrow his past. Hazel's grandfather was an evangelical preacher; Hazel decides to revolt against his legacy by starting his own "Church Without Christ." As forcefully played by Brad Dourif (the stuttering inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), the young hero is an angry, obsessed loner with penetrating eyes and a fierce bark. When he tries and fails to start his new church, he meets a large array of even greater crackpots: a charlatan street preacher who fakes blindness (Harry Dean Stanton), a zookeeper (Daniel Shor) in search...
...bloated the value of residential housing that anyone with a home of his own has now come to look on it as a sort of savings account that one can live in. The result, he said, is that people have been increasingly willing to dip into their nest eggs or go into debt to support their living standards. Joseph Pechman of Washington's Brookings Institution, on the other hand, suggested that much of the shopping splurge has been attributable to a consumer compulsion to buy now before prices shoot into orbit. Yet Brookings Economist Arthur Okun noted that considerable...
...salute by the Dutch governor. Thus, as noted on a plaque presented to the island by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "the sovereignty of the United States of America was first formally acknowledged" by a foreign power. In 1781 London dispatched Admiral George Brydges Rodney to punish the Statian "nest of vipers." Wrote Rodney: "Had it not been for this infamous island, the American Revolution could not possibly have subsisted." In five months Rodney stripped the Golden Rock of booty then worth as much as ?4 million (as high as $100 million by today's values). The island never recovered...