Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coming -- get out of the way! The competition is stepping aside for Batman Returns: no other studio movie opens that weekend. Does Hollywood think everybody is going to just one movie on June 19? Have the bosses forgotten the lesson of 1989, when brave little Disney opened Honey, I Shrunk the Kids the same day that Batman opened and eventually earned $130 million for the $10 million comedy? Mark Canton, president of Columbia Pictures, hopes there is room for the long shots, the Lil E. Tees, to sprint past the big-budget Arazis. "Our films aren't supertankers," he says...
...objects don't declare themselves across the room at you. Like certain Joseph Cornell boxes, or like the tiny clay caricature heads by Daumier that so influenced Giacometti's ideas of scale they pull you close in with their bright and almost fetishistic visual promise until you have shrunk, as it were, to their size...
Hollywood is stuck on sentences as movie titles. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead have given way to This Is My Life, I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. Coming soon: We're Back and Death Becomes Her. Expect overburdened multiplex marquees to resort to alphabet-soup abbreviations...
Across the South and West, drilling activity for crude oil is at its lowest point in 52 years. The rig count, the best gauge of life in the oil patch, hovered last week near an all-time low of 660. Production from existing fields has shrunk to its lowest since 1962. Scores of drillers, producers and support firms are laying off, folding up or going bankrupt. Warns Denise Bode, president of the International Petroleum Association of America: "The industry is nearing a state of economic collapse...
...diary kept by someone who cannot look away from the truth. Magic and Loss, largely inspired by the death last year of Reed's friend, the superb songwriter Doc Pomus, uses spare instrumentation and simple language ("The same power that burned Hiroshima/ causing three-legged babies and death/ Shrunk to the size of a nickel/ to help him regain his breath") to stare down mortality and peek into the abyss. The title says it best. The subject is loss, but the music, dark and pitiless, is still magic...