Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before television, Ring Lardner's World Serious was never as somber as baseball's capitalists made it seem for the longest time last week. Late- night games on weekends are crimes against nature. When venality becomes a ground rule, a dreariness seeps into the cool night air, and the Red Sox and Mets seemed only alternately able to shake it. "Here's the windup and the pitch," in the modern form, means The Cosby Show is ending, the Merrill Lynch commercials know no boundaries, and it is getting on to 9 p.m. EDT -- cue the pitchers...
...Yours," in An Amateur's Guide To The Night, Mary Robison. A wise, poignant pumpkin-carving story from Harvard's own writer-in-residence. Apart from letting you cool down after the macabre O'Connor, "Yours" reveals a more human side to the Halloween season. And Robison finds a beautiful metaphor in the dying flame at the heart of every jack-o'-lantern...
There is intimidation. "I think any guy who doesn't wear a black tie when the invitation says black tie is really tacky," insists Glamour Editor Charla Krupp. "It's not cool anymore not to wear one. It's just cheap...
...they turned cuffs; the rage became the rule. The first off-the-peg tux appeared around World War I, and tails were dusted off mostly for coronations. Movie stars such as Gary Cooper, William Powell, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire burnished the national formal-fashion ideal. Cooper looked as cool in a dinner jacket as he did in jeans...
...been, for ten years now, a cool hand at bringing up all manner of crawly things from just below the surface. Byrne and the Heads made music that examined some of the oddest, spookiest manifestations of modern emotional life, sang songs that turned grim tidings into deadpan jokes and disaffection into disarming social parables. Byrne's lyrics played four-wall handball with anomie and, floating all around the band's cunning and enterprising rhythms, moved the Heads past punk and over the crest of rock's new wave into a forefront they had sharpened up for themselves...