Word: spiralled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since 1965, prices in the U.S. economy have been heading one way. Sometimes rapidly, sometimes slowly, they went relentlessly upward. Yet last week the Labor Department reported that the economy's 17-year inflationary spiral had, for one month at least, finally been broken. During March, inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index actually went down instead of up. This turned a trend of what economists call disinflation, or slowing price rises, into outright deflation, or falling prices...
Runaway prices have dogged and bedeviled every President since Lyndon Johnson, who helped unleash the price spiral in 1965 by financing the Viet Nam War almost entirely out of federal deficit spending, without raising taxes. Richard Nixon's clumsy efforts to stop inflation by a 90-day wage and price freeze, and later by various "phases" of economic restraint and stimulus, merely made the problem worse. Gerald Ford's jawboning efforts, epitomized by WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons, gave the impression that Washington had few ideas on how to cope with price increases. Under Jimmy Carter, inflation reached...
...backward into the wood from knots, Penone has raised the buried ghost of the tree as it looked when it was younger. This may sound a simple conceit, but it is not: the finished sculpture, almost "nature" but not quite, also relates in a subtle way to the organic spiral form of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim ramp...
...theatrical is Lumet's direction. The play was so successful in the theatre, that Lumet can't really be blamed for borrowing some of its techniques for his film. The Bruhl's Hampton home looks lovely with its woodsy interior but it also looks stagey. Doors, windows and a spiral staircase are too neatly arranged around the sides of the set; by shooting rooms up from the floor and down from the ceiling Lumet adds a closed-in effect that verges on the claustrophobic. This may be intentional--a kind of tribute to the play within a play within...
...early February Jeff Ulin, a Currier House junior, played a 10:30 p.m. Sunday House hockey game against Kirkland. He came out of it with a double spiral fracture and shattering of the tibia as well as a fracture of the fibula of the right leg, courtesy of a late-game check at an exceedingly awkward angle...