Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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REVIEWERS are despicable characters. In one way or another they always manage to ruin movies, especially independent movies. Independent movies are difficult for the reviewer because, as a general rule, they don't have stars, their subjects are not always well-focused, and they can appear self-centered because they are often not intended to appeal to mass audiences, as Hollywood movies...
...Bedford, Mass. The local Boys Club, which owned it, lent it in the 1950s to the town's First National Bank, which put it in storage. That deeply upset Jacob Rubin, 82, a Russian-born furniture maker, who was worried that the painting was "going to wrack and ruin." On behalf of the Boys Club-of which he is a director and benefactor-Rubin tried to sell the portrait. He got no takers-even after he lowered his price to $100. So he and his wife Esther anted up what they thought it was worth-$500-and donated...
When the two-year drought first parched much of the country in 1976, farmers cried that unless Washington came to their rescue they faced financial ruin. Congress obliged by making the farmers eligible for easy-to-get, easy-to-repay loans under the Small Business Administration's disaster relief program. Now farmers in some areas are afflicted not by drought but by harvests so bountiful that prices have fallen. So back to the trough of federal aid they have come-in a stampede. They have made such a run on the SBA farm loans that administrators who once budgeted...
...conservation measure?a high tariff on industrial users of gas and oil. When the issue came up in the Senate last week, Long was in vintage form, giving that he might receive. A few days before the vote, Long's chief aide ?raising the specter of financial ruin for Louisiana industry?forecast the proposal's future with a Southern lilt: "The industrial user's tax is d-a-i-d, dead." Yet when the measure came to a vote, the wily Long did not thwart the drive to make it 1-i-v-e, live. In exchange...
Suicide rates jump. Young people search for meaning in life. Unemployed divorcees with small children sit at home and rink and cry. Corporate leaders are able to ruin thousands of lives on the other side of the globe without seeing a single tear that their actions cause to be shed. It's nothing particularly new. It's modern society with all its mobility, freedom, independence, economic prosperity, loneliness, alienation, centralization and exploitation. It's the anonymous world. Maybe we will adjust and in the end the world will be a better place for all. Maybe new values and mores will...