Word: spiraling
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Dianne chooses a costume for herself and her daughter Bridey, 9. Dianne will be Spiral Head, and Bridey will be the Summer Bird. Vicki chooses the Baby Raven for Veva Burns, Bridey's friend, who is also nine...
...prices and wages spiral out of control, business strategy is virtually paralyzed. Says Thomas Michael Lanz, director of a Sao Paulo electronic-tools company: "We are all lost. We can't plan, we can't set prices, we can't decide whether to hire or fire." Senhor, the widely read Sao Paulo-based business magazine, put an upside-down map of Brazil on its cover last week with the headline GENERAL CONFUSION...
Like all good prehistoric beasts tend to do, the Dinosaur eventually disappeared, leaving behind only fossilized traces of his natural foodstuffs, his indigenous underwear, and his characteristic drug paraphernalia. He left behind no moral lessons, no cultural conundrums worth of opination, but only a stark example of the brutal spiral of natural selection, which fortunately left him with a brain incapable of responding to the printed word. Which means I won't get nuked...
...this way, the album gains momentum. From "Took A Hammering" to "Evil Last Night," this disc progresses like a slow spiral into psychosis. However, like the best of Big Black and Naked Raygun, Ice is also triumphant and redemptive in the sheer force with which its pessimistic sentiments are lamented. If ever there were a good argument for the benefits of primal scream therapy, this trio of Chicago bands...
...someone has to do them: messenger, storeroom clerk, cook in a fast-food restaurant. The work requires few skills, pays little and offers almost no chance for advancement. Minimum-wage jobs. In the 1980s earning a living at minimal pay is more difficult than ever. During the inflationary spiral of the late '70s, the minimum wage was increased almost yearly, but since Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the standard has been frozen at $3.35 an hour. Not since World War II has it gone unchanged for so long...