Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, as your classmates plod off again to the library, feeling all the vacuous redundance that accompanies a three day drive across the rolling obscurity of a midwestern prairie, you sink back, relishing the heady exhaustion a mountaineer feels after returning home from an assault on Everest...
...shame that George Harrison's Handmade Films, which had become a trademark for quality silliness like Time Bandits or the darker Brazil, should sink to almost pre-Vaudevillian gags in Water. Then again, when the audience is laughing out loud, we often forget to hang on to the story line...
...fired as an electronics technician because, as his wife Jane explains, "they said he was too slow and inattentive." Trey Smith, another Landmark enlistee, had similar symptoms and his own deep frustrations. A superb pulling guard at his Dallas high school, Smith saw a raft of football scholarships sink because of his hopeless transcript. Smith had known about his disability since he was eight; Thompson learned from a psychologist that he was dyslectic when he flunked out of Franklin. "No wonder I'm not making it," he thought at the time...
...publicity is to LaRouche's benefit. Since the LaRouchites' win in Illinois, the Democratic Party is screening local candidates to weed out LaRouche followers. Moreover, continued exposure may sink his cult in a sea of ridicule. Said Wesley McCune, director of Washington-based Group Research Inc., which studies right-wing organizations: "Now everybody can see just how crazy...
...alarmed about the high level of consumer debt. Warns Gilbert Heebner, chief economist for Philadelphia-based CoreStates Financial, a bank holding company: "Debt problems have the potential to retard economic growth and, at worst, lead to another recession." And if a slump comes, many debt-laden families could sink into insolvency. Says Henry Kaufman, chief economist for Wall Street's Salomon Brothers: "American households as a whole have never been more exposed to a downturn...