Word: shrunken
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...Nixon is the proper spokesmen for [this American] ethos, then nothing could prove better how shrunken, small, how unheroic that ideal is. This politics will not summon us with trumpets. The tone of our public life is not the old one--"These qualities made America the great country it is, and we must be true to them." The present tone is "these qualities made the country what it is, and we must settle for them...
PICTURE MICHAEL Jackson at the helm of the Millenium Falcon with a crew of Snuffalupagusesque space-doofs--Two things that look like shrunken, tie-dyed Abominable Snowmen, another furry critter with a farting. trumpet-trunk nose (Is flatulence comedy's equivalent of Esperanto?), and a butterfly-winged, cute-as-hell koala that looks like a cross between Tinkerbell and John Madden...
...plot resembles the house, an outrageous, turreted wonder. Lenny MaGrath (Keaton) is the oldest sister, unmarried, moody, leery of men because of a "shrunken ovary." Meg (Lange), the flamboyant middle sister, is a minor- league cabaret singer whose recent employment has been in a dog-food company. Babe, the youngest, has that little problem with the husband she shot wisely but not well. Meg tells cheerful lies to Old Grandaddy and worries later that when he finds out the truth, he will lapse into a coma. Babe and Lenny laugh so hard at this that they can hardly spit...
...nature." In the hands of a melodramatic or cheaply "humanistic" artist, this rabbit would have been a pretext for the pathetic fallacy. But in Lopez's hands its death is its own and no one else's; and its minutely observant reconstruction under the brush, each nuance of its shrunken flesh reconstituted by a mark, fleck or scribble of paint that carries its wiry vitality as a sign, gives the inspection of this still and single object the power of narrative...
...finance budget shortfalls. The United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven sheikdoms, has been politically weakened by the oil-price collapse. The federal government that binds the state together is virtually broke, and the two leading emirates, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, are reluctant to dip into their own shrunken treasuries to bail...