I remember being really struck, in "Dulse" [The New Yorker, 7/21/80], by the central character's sense that the women of her generation had "an idea of love which is ruinous but not serious in some way, not respectful".
When "Children Underground" was filmed three years ago, Aurolac, which is ruinous to the lungs and produces a chronic, hacking cough, was the drug of choice among the city's homeless youth.
As "Lost" bogged down and its audience shrank — its ratings in recent weeks have been about two-thirds of what they were in the early seasons — an interesting thing happened: a core of viewers emerged for whom the endless complications, which were ruinous in any traditional dramatic sense, were the basis of a new sort of fandom.
He later claimed that his motivation for moving from stage to films was the "lack of repetition the continual playing of a part, which is so ruinous to an actor, is entirely eliminated".
But in a depressed economy, cutting spending can lead to deflation, which is every bit as ruinous.
When it came to trying to decide which theories of child-rearing were highly beneficial and which were absolutely ruinous to the future of your child — a subject of considerable discussion among some parents we knew — we agreed on a simple notion: your children are either the center of your life or they're not, and the rest is commentary.
Out of the security gauntlet, visitors pass into the park's main central courtyard, which is dominated by a huge, ruinous Disney-style castle skirted by a stagnant litter-strewn moat.
Not even Eliot Spitzer's misbegotten plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, which was thought to be ruinous for Democrats, has damaged the Democratic Party; rather, the Party increased its numbers in local races around the state.
If a borrower isn't up to the challenges, the result could be payment of taxes that aren't owed, or nonpayment of taxes that have been assessed — either of which could be ruinous for people who are trying to rebound from foreclosure.
It also assumes that there will be no long-running relief from the alternative minimum tax — which would be ruinous for the middle class — and that there will be deep cuts in Medicare and other health care spending that have proved to be politically impossible to enact.
The MPs also want to discourage "libel tourism" by requiring a claimant who is not based in Britain to produce a very solid argument as to why the case needs to be brought there.As for the cost of libel actions, which can be ruinous to all but the biggest defendants, the MPs have few specific ideas, though they appeal to lawyers' sense of responsibility.
