Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This situation has already yielded a fight over Tiger, one that can perhaps be best understood in the context of a little thought experiment. Imagine that it's Sunday, April 13. Tiger has just won the Masters, and, curious observer that you are, you go around asking different people what they would like the headline to be in the newspapers the next day. Some would no doubt prefer "First African-American Wins the Masters." Others, on account of his mother's Thai origins, would like "First Man of Asian Descent Wins the Masters." Some in the younger set would probably...
...interest, I think, was an innocent one--I was just plain curious about it. I had no agenda, and no concern about what my work might lead to, other than to a better understanding of what makes us human. But when my research hit the headlines, everyone assumed I did have an agenda, although they couldn't agree on what it was. To some, I was out to pathologize, perhaps to eliminate homosexuality. "Another example of medical homophobia!" declared one gay academic on prime time television. To others, I was out to justify homosexuality--to prove that we are "born...
...mailed me, except a boy named Krepple I once met in Miami Beach in 1967. While the medium wasn't unusual, the message was. Scharfstein, a lawyer in Beaverton, Oregon, wanted the name of "a good Internet detective." My old friend is now learning his way around a curious new growth industry: Internet-sparked divorces...
Perhaps the motivation of the questioner is not as cynical as I make it to be, but this question lurks up behind every unsuspecting student who has returned from spring break. There's nothing inherently wrong with being curious about how your classmates plan to spend their summers. I, too, am guilty of asking everyone I see their vernal whereabouts...
Since then, casually dressed members of the group, identified only by their first names, have been traveling the country proselytizing, informing curious listeners that they were not seeking money, only recruits. Michael Upledger, a reporter for a Tampa, Florida, weekly newspaper, interviewed five cult members in 1994. "Their one vice was science fiction," he recalls. "They loved The X-Files, and they loved Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the only time they really brightened up and came alive. They just lit up. We had a long conversation about which Star Trek was better...