Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lynch delivered. Wild at Heart is splendidly grotesque and mammothly entertaining -- the director's first for-sure comedy, Blue Velvet for laughs. The plot, from Barry Gifford's noirish novel, is your standard slice of poisoned American pie: a pair of loser-friendly lovers, Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern), hit the road to escape Lula's mom and a phalanx of psychos who vividly illustrate Lula's contention that the "whole world's wild at heart and weird on top." But the picture is charged with so much deranged energy, so many bravura images, that...
...scenes and dialogue have entered TV's collective memory bank, like Lucy's spread of doughnuts for Sheriff Truman and his deputies: "A policeman's dream." At George Washington University, students launched Thursday-night pie-eating rituals: everybody digs in as soon as FBI agent Cooper bites into a slice of cherry or huckleberry. Fans are trading theories about Laura's killer (the Log Lady? the sheriff?), while a European video version of the pilot identifies the killer as a drifter named Robert. Don't be so sure, say the show's creators; in the U.S. the culprit could...
...soon to be true in the East, now that they've got the easy part, revolution, out of the way -- history is not made by politics. It is made by economics, by demographics and, above all, by science and technology. Politics lubricates, corrupts mildly and takes a slice of the action. But it does not create new worlds as it did, horribly, in 1917 and 1933 and, blessedly, in 1946-49 when the U.S. established the structures of the postwar world. Politics has become, like much of life, maintenance. The house is built; Republicans and Democrats argue now over...
...discovered that from real bread you get more nutrients for the fewest calories, for the fewest dollars," says Paul Stitt, president of Natural Ovens of Manitowoc in Wisconsin. Some of today's producers make health benefits a key selling point. Schripps in New Jersey, for example, exuberantly describes its Slice of Life loaf as containing "16% roughage, which regularizes the digestive system, preventing or relieving constipation...
...lenders are willing to charge less interest than the inflation rate, which they won't do once they catch on. Since 1984, thanks to larger deficits and higher interest rates, we've been adding to the debt faster than it's been eroding away. This year inflation will slice about $116 billion off the real value of the debt, but interest payments averaging almost 8% will add $179 billion to it. Next year we'll pay interest on that interest...