Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decline in the U.S. dollar may have finally triggered a turnaround in trade. "I think the data clearly show a cresting in the deficit," said Alan Greenspan, former chief economic adviser to President Ford. After hitting an estimated $165 billion for 1986, a record total, the trade gap could shrink to about $140 billion next year...
...overlooking the unassuming fellow over there behind the desk who runs the Stratford Inn, a mild-mannered writer and part-time TV talk-show host named Dick Loudon. All the more so since Loudon is played by Bob Newhart, who has made a career out of trying to shrink into the scenery. As a stand-up comic in the early 1960s, Newhart created a series of dryly satirical routines in which he portrayed a well- meaning, slightly befuddled organization man trying to cope with extraordinary events, from the discovery of tobacco to King Kong climbing up the Empire State Building...
...Perfect for You). In the $250,000 video out this week, she gets her lanky legs waxed, dunks herself in a milk bath and even undergoes pseudo psychoanalysis with Guru Timothy Leary. Of course, Jones has always had a sizable appetite for fashion overstatement, so she did not shrink from slipping her 5-ft. 9-in. frame into a 30-ft. by 60- ft. dress. And she tops off the reckless excess with phantasmagoric headgear that looks like a co-creation by Medusa and Dr. Seuss. Proclaims Jones: "The audience sees me as a larger-than-life image they...
...important for women," said Winnifred Cutler, a biologist and specialist in behavioral endocrinology who conducted the study along with Organic Chemist George Preti. "If you look at all the data, the conclusion is compelling. A man or his essence seems essential for an optimally fertile system." Nor did Cutler shrink from the commercial possibilities. "My dream," she said, "is that manufactured male essence, in creams, sprays or perfumes, can dramatically alter the well-being of women...
...most important things are hard to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what...