Word: shrinkly
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...always a swear word in America, has now become a deadly insult -- though it is a little hard to understand why. Are we just learning that politicians say one thing to get elected and do something entirely different once they win? Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt both promised to shrink the government's powers when campaigning, and both men expanded those powers as President. The politician is evasive if not duplicitous? The method of choosing candidates is arbitrary if not corrupt? The candidate hides his or her real views while trying to please diverse constituencies? All that has been true...
...September 1987, Sulzberger recalls, just before he became deputy publisher, he held in his hands the fattest paper in New York Times history; a few weeks later, after the stock market crashed 500 points, advertising fell, and the paper began to shrink. "Suddenly we were no longer talking about the Grand Plan but about how to control the descent," he says. Spending was frozen on the business side and buyouts were offered. But the Times never stopped hiring reporters, because "somewhere in there is an assistant managing editor in 20 years...
...classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing to save her life? What if abnormal Norman were to be questioned by the shrink who has decoded his warped family life? And what if Norman were to escape from custody to reveal an even creepier secret...
...from Argentina on a quick and not-so-flattering trip to the hoop. Five-hundred-pound sneakers: that's what it appeared the Argentine was wearing as Jordan effortlessly rose as from a trampoline for one of his trademark, gravity-defying pirouettes above the rim. The Argentine seemed to shrink to the size of a circus midget. As Jordan dunked the ball, the players on the bench leaped up and cheered the best basketball player the world has ever seen. In Spanish...
...social conservatism -- including thinly veiled appeals to racism, like the notorious Willie Horton ads of 1988. The results have been divisive but spectacular. Since 1968, except when Carter won in '76, G.O.P. presidential candidates have owned the South and the Democrats have seen their once secure Southern base shrink until its mainstays were blacks and poor whites. This year the task facing Clinton and Gore is to reach out to the mostly white voters who defected during the past quarter-century while remaining true to their party's civil-rights and economic traditions...