Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although he is now unable to perceive and describe familiar moment in modern life, Joel apparently has perceived his own slide into sweet-sounding fluff, and on The Nylon Curtain he desperately tries to do something about it. In a last-gasp attempt to attain relevance, he sings about Issues: you know, Unemployment, Social Pressure, Viet Nam, and, of course, Sesame Street. Instead of seizing an elevated song-writing status. Joel glaringly reveals his own detachment from the emotions and situations he describes to others...
...Divinity School sits Harvard's strangest building. Outside, in the shadow of the labs, a little mob of preschool children are running around a makeshift, fenced-in playground. "YARD RULES," a nearby sign reads: "Smacking the windows is not allowed. Sand stays in the sandbox and off the slide...
LYING IN A STRANGE woman's bed and clutching at the loose ends of his emerging consciousness, Peter O'Toole looks gloriously dissipated. His long face, rough hewn by the careless chisel of time, barely resists the pull of gravity; even his mustache threatens to slide off his upper lip like a caterpillar from a branch...
...blame-the-Democrats theme even harder the next day in a Richmond speech supporting the Senate candidacy of Virginia Congressman Paul Trible. The election, he said, posed a choice of "whether we will continue our sure and steady course to put America back on track or whether we will slide backward into another economic binge like the one which left us with today's pounding national hangover...
Holocaust, doomsday-the very words are beginning to slide glibly off our minds, Friedrich fears. From war-game scenarists on down, we are all in grave danger of becoming professional waiters-for-the-end. After being a text for religious and then philosophical consternation, "the idea of the end of the world has finally become an instrument of international propaganda," Friedrich writes...