Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President 14 months ago. Brazil's prosperity is benefiting mainly the upper 10% of the country's 90 million people. The more than one-third of Brazil's workers who are tied to the minimum wage (now $40 a month) have watched their real purchasing power shrink by about 50% over the last ten years. Then, too, Medici has yet to make good on his early talk of "free universities, free political parties, free unions and freedom of the press." Newspapers still squirm under requirements for rigid self-censorship, and even nonradical students tend to be alienated...
...dean for the last six years has been in the uncomfortable position of watching it grow from a mediocre to a respected and progressive school; then, at the height of its expansion last year, seeing the federal support shrink away...
...Lowell House presentation, a Greek chorus sets the stage and beautifully suggests the pair's lifelessness and plasticity by treating them as just two more props to be moved into place. Another innovation is the actual acting out of the Tahitian movie, a touch that makes the suburbanites shrink further into irreality, by graphic contrast with the film characters of their imagination...
THREE INCHES is such a wretched height to be: Exactly halfway through the film. ( Elvis: That's the Way It Is. ) At midpoint. That is to say, at the very heart of the matter: Elvis up there singing, singing. Love, love me do. When suddenly he begins to shrink. Say from 18 feet down to about three. The screen shatters into a half-dozen other, simultaneous, images. Up left, an exterior shot of Las Vegas' International Hotel. By day, a pretty dull affair, not to be compared with Caesar's or the Sands. But by night! ELVIS. In mile-high...
Meanwhile, back on the screen of the Center Theatre on the very bottommost bit of Washington Street, Elvis continuing to shrink and sing. While, from the screen's bottom left, shots of the International's mammoth kitchens. Great, grotesque hunks of institutional meat. Barrels of dough. Bread for the circus. And, over on Elvis' right, Brobdingnagian close-ups of the office staff, the maids, bellboys, waitresses, showgirls and hawkers, pr men. Tourists. But no, not tourists. Not in Vegas. And, the center of it all, Elvis, jes keeps on singin'. Surround him, cameras roll up and down through the labyrinthic...