Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Devil's Candy is full of cruel Hollywood wit, and Griffith is a particular butt of the bitch-and-moan. Looking at screen tests that showed bags under her eyes, co-producer Fred Caruso snapped, "Use Preparation H. That'll shrink 'em." Months later when Griffith appeared on the set seemingly with pontoon implants in her breasts, the team sighed again. No one, evidently, suggested Preparation...
...same low rates have been the bane of savers -- particularly senior citizens -- who have watched their income from investments rapidly shrink away. A six-month bank CD that paid 8% interest a year ago now yields just 4.9%. "People are turning off their phones for a month to get by," laments Irene Farr, 73, a retired clerical worker who lives in a senior community in South Bend, Ind. "They just have no way to live. It's a dignified form of destitution." Moreover, the low rates that have caused such pain have so far failed to pull the economy...
SESSIONS (HBO, debuting Oct. 6, 10:10 p.m. EDT). A 42-year-old husband and father (Michael McKean) discusses his sexual fantasies and mid-life neuroses with a sympathetic shrink (Elliott Gould). Billy Crystal created and co-wrote this offbeat comedy series, which is frank and frequently clever, though a bit mushy at the center...
...aerospace engineers around the world scrambling to build the next generation of this billion-dollar white elephant? In a word: Asia. The booming market for transpacific flights is expected to help create a lucrative new market for a plane that can shrink long distances. By the end of the decade, transpacific travel is expected to reach 315,000 passengers a day, or 15% more than will cross the Atlantic daily. A plane flying at Mach 2.5 (2 1/2 times the speed of sound, or 1,800 m.p.h.) could more than halve the duration of a Los Angeles-Tokyo flight...
...Reconnaissance Center, which handles satellite imaging; and the enormous, separate intelligence arms of the military services. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan has called for the CIA to be dissolved and its responsibilities turned over to the State Department. If that is not possible, Moynihan says, the agency should shrink its budget, a classified figure that is currently between $25 billion and $30 billion a year. "Downsize, downsize," Moynihan advises. "Don't look for silly, quasi-cold war tasks like 'Find the narcoterrorists' or 'Steal the economic secrets of Albania...