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Aunified press criticizes the ruling coalition (the Liberal and National parties) for using the tax plan as an election trump card, and an Age editorial blasts the government, noting that there has been "little headway against unemployment, manufacturing export growth has slowed, and the innovation culture was receding."
But even among the good guys, a marginal physiognomy or a receding hairline can spell doom.
While taking care never to cross the line, they ignore anything short of crossing it, and they don't notice that the line is gradually receding.
You either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever," and many reviewers seem to see the hankie waving here at the boy wonder who a decade ago wowed the critics with The Mysteries of Pittsburgh . As Michael Gorra says in the New York Times Books Review , "Promising is still the word I'd choose" to describe this collection, "but after 10 years and four books that adjective has to seem a disappointment."
To provide an answer to my own question--"Why now" does the "great disruption" seem to be receding?--I would suggest that society in broad terms came to an understanding in the late 1980s that we had largely lost control of a relatively large number of youths and public spaces.