Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every kind, from the anti-Clinton tycoon Richard Mellon Scaife to the freelance spider Lucianne Goldberg and the Jupiter of sleaze, Larry Flynt. "There's a cottage industry of digging up dirt and slinging mud," says Kyle McSlarrow, chairman of Quayle 2000. "The candidates themselves will bend over backward to stay away from it, but they've lost control...
...novelist, Amis has demonstrated a facility for inversion (Time's Arrow runs history backward). Here the story Straight Fiction posits a society in which homosexuality is the social norm and heterosexuals are fearful of discovery. Career Move illustrates what might happen if poems rather than prose became movie material. "The only thing we have a problem on 'Sonnet' with...is the form," says a Hollywood producer to a dismayed poet...
...lesson or two. And excuse me for pointing out that both of your writers seem to look at their home cities--suburban Baltimore for Mehta and somewhere in the New York area for Upton--as the standard-bearers of racial integration and harmony, while claiming that Boston is a backward, segregated, parochial city...
Harvard should consider opening its purse just a little wider and pouring some millions into addressing student concerns: freezing tuition levels at current rates for the next few years; improving student facilities, such as the woefully backward Malkin Athletic Center; hiring more professors to lower the student-faculty ratio and continuing to strengthen the financial aid program...
...have this backward? He's pulling you along...