Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kollek opposes his national government's policy of planting Jewish settlements on the West Bank, only a few miles from Jerusalem's city limits, because they "sap strength and people from our national capital." His One City plan for the development of the greater capital area would create an urban environment where human values are not run over by automobiles and where Jewish, Muslim and Christian neighborhoods form a cohesive entity. City districts are bonded by bustling streets that serve both traffic and shopping, as well as parks and recreation areas that provide contact and interaction. Says Kollek...
...Buddy System, Glenn Jordan's latest contribution to Hollywood sap, is sadly more of the same. The movie comes complete with stock characters who spout cliches as often as brushing their teeth, and whose stock lines and insights render (surprise) stock solutions. All the same, director Jordan must be given some credit for taking the standard storyline of lonely male meets lonely female and giving it some comic embellishment...
Among the most memorable short-lived "classics" to hit box offices in recent memory are The East American Virgin (lots of bodies, lots of sap), class (lots of Jacqueline Bisset, more sap), and Private Lessons (more of the same, minus Jacqueline Bisset). As long as teenagers continue demand a peek at what lies beyond the locker room producers will continue to churn out such films en masse, with more regard for profits than artistic quality...
...studied to stabilize currency markets. The Japanese escaped direct criticism of their own trade policies while joining in a general condemnation of protectionism. And all of America's trading partners extracted an admission from Washington that uncontrolled budget deficits contribute to rising interest rates and threaten to sap the strength of the budding global recovery. The conferees made no concrete pledges about how these problems would be specifically solved, but they at least came away with a greater sensitivity to one another's concerns...
What Happens To inspiration when the author is seemingly flapped by a well-established rigid family and a love hate relationship with the city of his birth Destonomy love affairs sap or sustain his creativity? Can poets make their contemporaries sound obsolete by pioneering new styles or force each other to adopt new techniques. What happens to a poet when he sees hits mentors and friends dying, their deaths so close together as to seem more than a coincidence. Most important, what is the relationship between genius and insanity does one cause the other...