Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warn that the cost of returning to a gold-based currency could be enormous. Monetary authorities may be forced to raise interest rates even in the midst of a recession to encourage dollar purchases needed to defend the dollar's fixed value. The result? A mild business downturn could spiral into something far worse. Sticking with the gold standard in this situation would be the economic equivalent of a pilot's refusing, upon seeing a collision ahead, to take the plane off autopilot...
...invites him to move in with her--no sex, please, we're preoccupied--and the audience is invited to watch their downward spiral. We're not talking high, morally instructive tragedy here, just a hard lesson in postmodernist outlawry and its sad little anarchies. Writer-director Mike Figgis (Stormy Monday, Internal Affairs) places a few opportunities to arrest their course along this pair's path, but Ben and Sera don't notice them, and he refuses to exploit them for dramatic purposes or even for ironic effect...
...didn't have a problem of letting our errors spiral downwards," sophomore Elissa Hart said...
What will keep today's young safe from the downward spiral--which is not only the familiar descent of children bearing children and disintegrated families and AIDS, but also the more general American sexual devolution, the swamp of the id? Basketball has lost its sublimating magic...
...Little Boy singed more than 4 sq mi. of Hiroshima reddish-brown. In the process, it left a bizarre photographic negative of the instant of destruction. Objects, human or inanimate, that came between the blast and other objects cast their shadows as unburned patterns on the protected space: a spiral ladder was imprinted on the surface of a storage plant behind it. Survivors foraging for food in vegetable gardens later that day dug up potatoes and found that they had been baked in the ground...