Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sultans of Constantinople are no more. From that citadel, Erbil last week appeared remarkably calm for a city just beset by Iraq. Banks were open, shops were doing brisk business and, except for several parliament buildings and the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (P.U.K.), the city bore almost no indications of fighting. What little evidence there was, however, spoke volumes. A bust of Jalal Talabani, the P.U.K. leader, was beheaded at a road junction. His picture had also been stripped from the front of the Kurdish parliament. And throughout the town, the P.U.K. flag had been ripped down...
...drifted through the air. But now the smell of victory is strong, So all the warring factions get along With factions that they loved then to disparage: They're bound up in a peaceful, loveless marriage. The party hardly argues any more; It has in fact become an awful bore...
While Dole has been trapped in a vacuum of his own making--no policies, no message--Clinton has plugged away with two new family-values proposals a week. They are popular, conservative, small-bore measures designed to show his concern over truancy, deadbeat dads, burning churches and whatever else is polling well. "You guys [in the press] don't always pay much attention," says a Clinton adviser, "but people eat this stuff...
...take the form of mass impact. Martha Stewart's inexhaustible brand of domesticity claims a sizable audience. So do Jerry Seinfeld's small-bore irony and Oprah Winfrey's irresistible empathy. There is influence within a creative field. Hence the architect Frank Gehry and the female-rocker-as-open-wound-feminist Courtney Love. And there is proximity to power, at least when it is enjoyed by people with ideas and issues they know how to push. It's largely by this means that Al Gore, who is supposed to be in a no-influence job, isn't. (Sorry, Bill...
...first casualty was civility. When Simpson arrived in London last week, he was greeted at Heathrow Airport by a shoving horde of photographers and jeers from protesters shouting "Murderer!" The former running back retreated behind an offensive line of British bobbies, who escorted him to a car that bore an uncanny resemblance to his famous white Bronco...