Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everything that Marty Feldstein told you was wrong with monopolies is wrong with ETS. It's inefficient. It doesn't give a damn about the consumer. It makes mistakes, egregiously and regularly. It's ridiculously priced (Fifty bucks for a GRE, 10 more for the ETS-published books you need to study properly). It's faceless. It's Orwellian...
...male professional meetings, where old-fashioned etiquette was a stumbling block, she would always arrive early and be seated so men would not have to rise at her arrival. If a man interrupted himself to apologize to her after using a swear word, she would deftly drop a "damn" or "hell" into her own presentation "in a very lady-like way," pause a half beat to smile and offer apologies all around, and then continue...
...they retreat into Guns-vs.-the-world self-pity. "Don't damn me when I speak a piece of my mind," sniffles Rose in the band's most annoying new number. "Cause silence isn't golden when I'm holding it inside." Poor Axl. A talented vocalist and a whirling dervish of a stage performer, Rose is nonetheless one very disturbed human being, who sings, "I'm a cold heartbreaker/ Fit ta burn and I'll rip your heart in two." This is probably true. But even truer, and more appropriate, are the words once sung by his obvious intellectual...
...there are other fringe benefits, Vavpetic explains. "It's nice and cool up here. Fifteen degrees cooler in this part of the tower than the low rise." The lower portion of Mather, Vavpetic says, was "too damn hot. I couldn't breathe...
...enjoying a burgeoning revival. Last week Loesser's "musical with a lotta music," The Most Happy Fella (1956), opened to bravos and bouquets at the New York City Opera in Lincoln Center. A more intimate version of Fella will come to Broadway later this season, as will Loesser's damn-near-immortal Guys and Dolls (1950). This summer's straw-hat circuit was brightened by Where's Charley? (1948), starring Loesser's widow Jo Sullivan and their daughter Emily Loesser. The American Stage Festival mounted a reading of Greenwillow (1960), with an eye to a full staging next spring...