Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much as $50. "It's being sold in the streets by anybody who can make a buck," says William Hopkins, director of a New York State drug-abuse unit. "A guy who's making $50,000 a year is not going to lose his job because of bad urine...
...this lightly worn constructivism is a matter of instinct, not doctrine. Much of the new generation's architecture recalls the best buildings of the 1910s and '20s, buildings on the cusp between the neoclassical and the modern -- early, excitingly unsettled modernism, before assembly-line imitation gave austerity a bad name. The work of the younger generation, then, may be backward-looking, but its inspirations are antiquity and the early 20th century, not the 18th and 19th centuries. Quaintness does not excite...
...vicissitudes of Archer's life have already been put to use in his novels. An Oxford student who in 1969 became the youngest Member of Parliament, at age 29, he had to resign five years later after bad investments left him near bankruptcy. He turned to writing, and loosely based his first novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, on his experience. A main character in First Among Equals, who becomes Prime Minister in the considerably altered U.S. version, also suffers severe financial reverses...
...nonsensical talk during the '80s among cocky Republicans and Chicken Little Democrats of a rightward realignment, voters Tuesday sent some pretty liberal men--and one woman--to Washington. Considering also the liberals elected in 1984, and discounting the cranky Southern bad ol' boys who will chair key committees, the complexion of the new Senate is a fairly healty pink...
...didn't want to hit her because she's a girl, but I didn't know she was next," Henry said. "I felt really bad. All of the players started laughing. But she got up and still wanted some more. I think she can handle...