Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BABE. You thought the breed was extinct, that the only female body fashion was the sculpted, sanded sylph. Then along came Jennifer Connelly, innocent of face, voluptuous of form, aerodynamically perfect. In The Hot Spot, Career Opportunities and this summer's The Rocketeer, Connelly has been used as an iconic throwback, a memento of a simpler (sexist) era. Film critics quickly add that she is an appealing actress, just as men once declared that they read Playboy for the interviews. But so far Connelly has been mainly calendar art: Bettie Page via Vargas, a body without a soul. Moviemakers...
There is, however, among the vast majority of mindless "cammers," a rare but growing breed of dedicated enthusiasts who are not content simply to point and shoot. Weighed down with auxiliary lights, remote microphones and jury- rigged dollies, they don't just videotape weddings (or birthdays or bar mitzvahs), they choreograph them. Then, back in their basement studios, they process their footage through an array of cutting-edge technology to produce video that is just as polished as the best seen on national TV -- and for a fraction of the cost...
...holdings in real estate, financial services, broadcasting, publishing and insurance. The church's strict morality (it forbids premarital sex, gambling and the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs) reinforces the hardworking nature of Utah's people. A Wall Street bond trader puts it succinctly: "All they do there is breed, pray and make money...
...have always been a multiethnic country. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, who came from France in the 18th century, marveled at the astonishing diversity of the settlers -- "a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans and Swedes . . . this promiscuous breed." He propounded a famous question: "What then is the American, this new man?" And he gave a famous answer: "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men." E pluribus unum...
...will "get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people." This was the ideal that a century later Israel Zangwill crystallized in the title of his popular 1908 play The Melting Pot. And no institution was more potent in molding / Crevecoeur's "promiscuous breed" into Washington's "one people" than the American public school...