Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Steel consumption in recession-racked Western Europe dropped 4% in 1992 and may fall an additional 8% this year, while forecasts through the year 2000 show little growth even after recovery. The steel crisis is a textbook case of mismanaging the decline of a capital-intensive industry. For much of the 1980s, the Commission dictated steel production quotas that kept prices high but also emerged as "a great machine for slowing down the exit of the high- cost producers," says Jonathan Aylen, a senior lecturer at the University of Salford in Britain. Under steel's curious economics, it is sometimes...
...really -- because A Perfect World isn't a western Psycho, it's a warped Shane. In that 1953 film, mysterious gunslinger Alan Ladd agrees to protect a homesteader's family against varmints and becomes a reluctant role model for the tenderfoot's young son. Here, Haynes is the bad guy, but he's mainly Shane. When Terry puts the make on Phillip, Butch avenges the assault. He gives Phillip lessons in backwoods manhood: how to smoke, cuss, dance, romance a waitress, drive a car, steal a car, rob a store and, of course, point a loaded gun at people...
...novel's major puzzles are why Brennan, the tough old cop on the surveillance team, has gone wrong after a good career; and why Harry Dell'Appa, the smart, cocky young cop, was banished to the Siberia of western Massachusetts. When Dell'Appa finally figures things out, it's clear that Brennan explained himself in the first few sentences he spoke and that Dell'Appa isn't the only smart, ruthless member of his own family. The novel is mannered and the narration moves crabwise, and some readers may bail out. The rest of us may agree that this...
...late '70s, for example, the Soviets aggressively deployed medium- range Euromissiles designed to intimidate and neutralize Western Europe. It was a clear-cut challenge. The correct response was equally clear-cut: a NATO counterdeployment of comparable medium-range missiles...
Reagan and Thatcher and Kohl pulled it off. But not without enormous resistance from Western liberals and leftists. In America the resistance took the form of a nuclear-freeze movement that would have frozen Soviet missiles in place and frozen NATO...