Word: shrinkly
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...became progressively crippled with arthritis, Colette saw her world shrink to the dimensions of the cone of blue light thrown across her bed by an electric bulb shrouded in blue paper. She notices that the voices of the children outside in the Palais-Royal garden are not as loud as they once were. Her constant companion is pain-"pain ever young and active, instigator of astonishment, of anger, imposing its rhythm on me, provoking me to defy it"-but she will not blunt it, for pain, too, can be a boon to one with an "instinct for the game...
Scenes, character and incidents shrink from one another like people trapped in an elevator trying not to inhale. A large part of the book is amusing, fragmented, pointless reminiscence by the writer. Another part is solemn bosh about time and reality. One character is admired for having escaped into the past, apparently because he lives (he is not dead after all) in a troll-infested castle. Another runs a progressive school in which the past is ignored on the ground that if it had any value, it would not be past. People go around saying things like...
...rule 11 million blacks under a system the government once termed apartheid but now prefers to call "separate development." Pressing the charge that white supremacy is "intolerable," External Affairs Minister John Karefa-Smart of Sierra Leone claimed that the U.N. has every right to intervene-"National barriers cannot legitimately shrink universal human rights...
...works with are favorites of researchers: transplanted from one animal to another, they grow fast, and give a quick indication of a drug's effects. Promine speeds the growth of these cancers; retine makes them grow more slowly and actually causes some tumors, already well grown, to shrink. Perhaps most important, retine also works in cancers that certain mice develop naturally, which makes them more nearly comparable to the human disease. And neither pro-mine nor retine seems to have any harmful incidental effects-in sharp contrast with virtually all anticancer drugs...
...coming and may go to roost for the night. People standing under trees should watch the light that filters through the leaves. Normally it hits the ground as overlapping disks, each a round image of the round sun. But as the moon creeps across the sun, the disks will shrink to crescents...