Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...utterly unexpected. By the time this lift comes along, one feels numbed and battered by the movie's relentless vulgarity. Whorehouse began as a Playboy article by Larry L. King about the life and death of a not-too-bawdy house known as the Chicken Ranch. The process of mythologizing the basic material started with a Broadway musical. By now the misguided newsman whose crusade shut down the historical Chicken Ranch has evolved into an unbelievably flamboyant TV reporter...
...better than governments." Farouk gets an idea where Ahmed might be, and the taxi is off again, passing a mosque with a charred black wall on which some child has painted a bright blue plane dropping bright blue bombs. Rubbish burning everywhere heats the air from below as the relentless sun works from the top. In a marketplace in a Palestinian camp, where Ahmed is thought to be located, a walleyed woman asks furiously: "What do you think of these dogs, the Arabs?" A camp security guard points out a grape arbor on a roof and explains that Palestinians create...
Recession. The word no longer seems adequate to describe the relentless turmoil that is shaking the world economy. More and more politicians, businessmen and economists are beginning to have a few haunting fears that this economic decline could spiral out of control, leading to a breakdown in the economic system. Said Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the recent Versailles economic summit: "We are moving from crisis to catastrophe." Warns Paul McCracken, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon: "The world economy is balanced on a knife-edge and could easily plunge into another...
...overrun of $4.9 million for the plan. The Harvard HMO was forced to boost its premium 18% over last year's level. About a half-dozen other HMOs around the country are experiencing similar difficulties. On balance, however, periodic jumps in HMO premiums seem far preferable to the relentless annual cost accelerations that nonmembers by the millions seem doomed to endure...
...last week that he has no intention of resigning. In a statement to reporters, the grim-faced Secretary said that he would not discuss the allegations until the Silverman report was released. "I would, however, be less than honest if I did not state publicly my disgust with the relentless and cowardly attacks that have been made on me and my company...