Word: plummet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strider and the prince plummet to their fates in parallel lines. The animal prince in Strider is flogged into the ground in a vain chase after Serpuhofsky's faithless mistress (Burrell transformed into a heart wrecker of a woman). Strider ends in the knacker's yard awaiting the knife. Serpuhofsky, too tipsy to stand up, a prince turned slave, a man who once commanded 2 million rubles, ends up trying to cadge a thousand from an arriviste. In a moment of extreme poignance, the prince spies Strider. He remembers him and yet refuses to recognize him. Time...
...only one of the three to finish college, is robbed of his chance at glory when a recruiting violation costs Centenary College its opportunity to try for a national championship. McLeod is drafted but fails to make the Chicago Bulls. Having risen too far too fast, all three athletes plummet back to daily life and weekend pickup games, a lot sadder, and a little wiser, in the ghetto where it all began...
...does Farrell's style help much. Like some windy raconteur at the bar of the Raffles Hotel, he is diffuse and banal, occasionally clutching at his listener's elbow with a moralizing aside. His metaphorical flights can plummet ludicrously, as when he compares the cross section of a moment in history to a severed leg of lamb, "where you see the ends of the muscles, nerves, sinews and bone of one piece matching a similar ar rangement in the other." His characters "sink their teeth" into "weighty problems," accept things "lock, stock and barrel," and come to clanging...
...Prolixin stomp"). Most patients knew they were taking "meds" because they were different from "normies"; yet when they tried to be normal by refusing medication, their behavior often became more bizarre. Estroff herself tried Prolixin to experience its effects, but quit abruptly after six weeks of tremors, only to plummet into near-suicidal despair. Said she: "It was the closest I ever got to being crazy, and the closest I want...
...having second thoughts; profits on their U.S. investments are earned in dollars that are worth a declining number of marks and Swiss francs. The possibility is growing that foreign investors will pull much of their capital out of the U.S.; such a flight would cause the dollar to plummet even further and force the U.S. to intervene in foreign markets on a huge scale. That in turn could work to limit funds available for credit in the U.S., kick interest rates up and hurt capital spending and home building...