Word: archly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's happened? For three decades the twentysomething years were marked with arch abandon, each generation extending playtime a little longer. Not so long ago, this was the time for visits to nightclubs, apartments decorated with listing-board bookcases and taped posters, and rendezvous with the one--or the second or the third--who was about to get away. Now, rather suddenly, this generation dreams of Pottery Barn, slipcovered sofas and tuna-noodle surprise. "I read cookbooks," admits Angela Lee, 27, a New York teacher. "And my last five social occasions? I cooked and friends came over...
...rather quickly become lovers--but in the physical, not emotional, sense of the word. Delbanco incorrectly assumes a few lurid encounters between Ballard and Beth are sufficient demonstration of their timeless love. The tenuous emotional bond between the two lovers relies on little more than sex and arch conversations; it is scarcely strong enough to survive a strong shock...
...last legs, I decide to send feelers out far and wide. Soon I realize that it may be difficult to track down someone from the typically clamp-mouthed organization who will talk to an editor from The Crimson, the publication that has historically been the Lampoon's arch-rival...
...King has 75% more beef than the Big Mac, an extra 12 grams of fat (yum!) and no soggy third bun in the center. Most important, it has cost just 99[cents]. Such a simple strategy--more food for less money--contrasts with McDonald's weird pitch for the Arch Deluxe (the "grownup" burger that has flopped so far) and its recent 55[cents] promotion, a complicated scheme in which customers paid 55[cents] for the Big Mac and certain other sandwiches when accompanied by the purchase of any size beverage and fries except...oh, never mind...
...portrayed as an abusive monster, and countless colleagues attest to his arrogance and intolerance. But now, even during the week of the highest stress he has faced in years, he exudes his other side: the Zen-like calm and the impish aura that make him so different from his arch friend and arch rival Gates, a man of competitive intensity and analytical rigor. This Jobs literally lopes into the room, and he keeps using the word golly. So O.K., golly, it's true that the famed "Reality Distortion Field"--that renowned Jobsian ability to bamboozle and bedazzle--still works...