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But even among the good guys, a marginal physiognomy or a receding hairline can spell doom.
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.
Almost every other vampire movie accepts the patently unnatural convention that a vampire's fangs are capable of receding into his gums.
Griffiths, who played a free spirit in Muriel's Wedding (1994) and the simpy Hilary du Pré in last year's Hilary and Jackie , has a large nose and receding chin and looks quite homely from one or two angles.