Word: crave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fizzling chemicals spell the end of delirious passion; for many people that marks the end of the liaison as well. It is particularly true for those whom Dr. Michael Liebowitz of the New York State Psychiatric Institute terms "attraction junkies." They crave the intoxication of falling in love so much that they move frantically from affair to affair just as soon as the first rush of infatuation fades...
...people. "It's far easier to fix New York," says Berger, "than to rebuild it in Des Moines." More important, cities such as New York and Tokyo will never lose their role as % marketplaces of ideas. Even as electronic communications increasingly link people over long distances, they still crave face-to-face encounters...
...long as our species behaves like a spoiled only child, allowing parochial economic, political and leisure appetites to define the landscape, nature will deny us the thing we crave most -- a sense of belonging. To extend Groucho Marx's line, we would not join any club that would have us. Rarely accorded a standing of its own, nature is forever cast in anthropocentric terms, reduced to a prize in the simplistic consume-or-conserve debate. There is nature as the winsome obstacle to development, as the romanticist's favored tableau, even as the butt of ridicule by sophisticates who fault...
EVEN ANTIDEMOCRATS LIKE SERBIAN PRESIDENT Slobodan Milosevic crave the legitimacy only elections can bestow; what is vexing is the chance of losing. So he fixed the odds. Milosevic now risks almost nothing in upcoming Dec. 20 balloting, since the Serbian Electoral Commission disqualified his most formidable opponent, Yugoslavian Prime Minister Milan Panic, for failing to meet a one-year residency requirement...
...surprise that thirtysomething shows are growing in popularity. They reflect, to a large degree, the experiences and life-styles of the people who create them. They attract the audience demographics that advertisers crave. They usually get applause from the critics -- or at least approving nods for trying to bring "quality" to a medium dominated by escapist drivel...