Word: cynically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ARTIST AS CYNIC...
Fashion is in a particularly ugly, aimless, self-parodying phase at the moment, so perhaps it deserves a chronicler as cynical as this one. Anyway, a cynic is what it got during the industry's big pret-a-porter shows in Paris last spring, when Altman mingled with the modish elite and found room in his film for many of them: designers Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier and Issey Miyake, models Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington and CNN fashion maven Elsa Klensch...
...some point, a few more astute Faculty members realized the debate was a waste of time. "The Corporation is no doubt going to overrule us," interjected Professor of Sociology Theda Skocpol, ever the cynic. "It won't be the first time, and it won't be the last time." True, Still, why do I think Skocpol just thought the meeting was dragging on too long...
...call me a cynic, call me Scrooge, call me the Grinch. Tell me that I should see the humor and the hope in the signs of these panhandlers. Maybe so. But when the Christmas lights are down, and when the presents have already been opened, the problems of the poor will still be there, as desperate as ever. And as the decline of the work ethic continues, the problems will only become more intractable...
There is no sense in getting too inspired or sanguine. In the 1990s a cynic's eye reads a certain rotted sociology in important places -- an America disuniting into self-righteous tribalism (gridlocking interest groups; the indignant, victim-singing, litigating, on-the-make cousins, who are fighting over a national patrimony spread too thin...