Word: pendulums
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...half the land in the 13 westernmost states--even as they have enjoyed the benefits of subsidized electricity, water, grazing and mining. But Bush's muscular espousal of a supply-driven national energy policy and his appointment of conservative officials to top posts overseeing public lands have made the pendulum swing back to the other extreme, toward one of concern about how far the development push will go. "They just don't get it," says Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "Their ideological base is so out of synch with ordinary people on this." Even Congress is uneasy...
...sketches of shots never filmed, eliminated story boards. Huge eyes - one of Hitchcock's fetishes - stare from a curtain recreated from the opening dream scene that stretches across the gallery. Object of Destruction, Man Ray's creation of a metro-nome with an eye pasted onto the pendulum, is copied four times in the dream scene; the original is on display here...
...After the war, the pendulum had swung in the opposite direction. Swarms of veterans descended on campus, their education subsidized by the G.I. Bill. About one-third of them brought wives and about one-third of the couples had children...
...remember that the Tories ruled for 18 years in part because the Labor Party was such a disaster for most of that period. It was only under Blair that the party managed to reclaim most of the middle ground issues, leaving the Tories little to campaign on. And the pendulum has swung in the society away from the Thatcherite virtues of individuality and self-reliance. The trains stink and public services are in decline, and Britons are prepared to pay to improve them - not as much as other Europeans, perhaps, but they still want these things to be fixed...
Sears recruiter Tiefenthaler spots a similar trend. "There used to be a job-hopping environment, but now I think the pendulum is swinging back, and people may want to stay with one company longer," she says. That shift has Sears "feeling pretty good." At the outset of the decade, it would be ironic indeed if one of the first legacies of the New Economy '90s turned out to be a docile class...