Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blue Man Group's stage piece "Tubes" is like a Baptist revival on Mars. Three mute, blue figures muck around at the messy crossroads of modern life, splashing around in paint to demonstrate chaos theory, attacking Twinkie's with power drills to re-examine such banalities as shrink-wrap, vacuuming the pathetic Christina out of Wyeth's "Christina's World." Frequent musical segments with deep primal bass lines and irregular-heartbeat drums overwhelm the audience in a purely sensory world, freeing them from the burden of too much thinking. Genteel Boston audiences have become devotees of the Blue Man Experience...
...reviving the labor movement in America will take a heroic effort, no matter who wins. Beset by corporate downsizing and increasingly harsh union-busting tactics, labor has seen its share of the U.S. work force shrink from about 35% in the mid-1960s to just 15% today. The diminished unions have been powerless to lift the wages of the average worker, which have shown virtually no growth for the past two decades after adjusting for inflation, even as productivity and corporate profits have soared...
...MEMOIR CAN BE A DANGEROUS literary form, especially when it is the work of a gifted writer embarked on a voyage to discover some elusive personal truth. In Heart: A Memoir (Warner Books; 323 pages; $22.95), Lance Morrow, a writer and essayist for TIME since 1965, does not shrink from the realization that the surest path toward self-discovery is self-disclosure. In an effort to heal body and spirit following a second coronary-bypass operation at the relatively young age of 52, he was determined to seek out the sources of the internalized anger that had twice threatened...
Business school administrators announced the shortened semesters, which will shrink the school year from nine to eight months, in September, when the first-year MBA students arrived...
Even a Democrat-controlled, Al Gore-inspired Congress would shrink from passing draconian emissions-control measures. And the current Republican House and Senate are unlikely to consider such regulations no matter how many scientists are convinced that global warming is real. Other industrial nations probably won't do much better, and poor countries can't afford to try. A more realistic strategy, some scientists argue, is to spend what research money there is figuring out how best to deal with global warming when it comes. It's already too late, they say, to do much else...