Word: browing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million years B.P., into a taller, stronger, smarter variety of human. From the neck down, Homo erectus, on average about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, was probably almost indistinguishable from a modern human. Above the neck -- well, these were still primitive humans. The skulls have flattened foreheads and prominent brow ridges like those of a gorilla or chimpanzee, and the jawbone shows no hint of anything resembling a chin. Braincases got bigger and bigger over the years, but at first an adult H. erectus probably had a brain no larger than that of a modern four-year-old. Anyone...
...played by Buddy Ebsen, had a warmth and a reliance on basic human values that contrasted nicely with the greedy materialistic world of Beverly Hills. The underlying implication of the show maintained that the Hillbillies, despite their unsophisticated ways, might know a bit more than their high brow neighbors...
...lamppost, a bulletin board or a kiosk. Since we are in Cambridge, they were probably papered over with posters. Those posters, no doubt, were covered with mind-numbingly stupid slogans. Harvard is supposed to be full of intelligent, discerning human beings; people who delight in scorning the low-brow indulgences of consumer culture. How has it come, then, that we are daily bombarded with home-grown jingles that make meaningless TV ejaculations like "Coke Is It," seem thankfully creative by comparison...
...Seattle and Manhattan Murder Mystery -- in which the main characters are habitues of Elaine's, Woody's Upper East Side hangout that was the hottest restaurant on earth during exactly the period when Sam Cohn was the hottest agent. The glorious moment for a certain cliquishly upper-middle-brow Manhattan high life -- back when Saturday Night Live and Vanity Fair were brand new, back before AIDS and Soon-Yi -- has passed...
Hillary's performance on her health-care road show is reminiscent of the campaign. She seems to be everywhere: at round, oval and U-shaped tables, with black briefing books, white papers and discussion points. At symposiums morning, noon and night, she presides with brow furrowed, lips pursed -- sometimes speaking, sometimes listening, always taking notes. At hearings when 1,000 seats are available, gymnasiums have to be set up with closed- circuit TV to accommodate the overflow. In a field where there is little drama, she has interjected some, picking fights with her designated bullies of the system, the doctors...