Word: diapered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MOST SURPRISING THINGS ABOUT THE 1991 Battle of the Sexes was that it was so full of surprises. After the feminist revolution of the '70s, the postfeminist age unrolled in the '80s amid musings about "mommy tracks" and the installation of diaper-changing facilities in airport men's rooms. By the '90s Americans were supposed to have moved on to more subtle issues about enhancing everyone's quality of life, letting women define themselves as individuals, letting men be warriors or frogurt eaters, as they choose...
...called heroic measures, such as expensive life | support for babies born after less than 23 weeks of gestation and weighing less than 500 g (1.1 lbs.). Nor will it pay for self-curing ailments -- now covered -- like the common cold, food poisoning, sprains and simple diaper rash. And, of course, the patient who needs spinal disc surgery, No. 588 on the list, may be out of luck...
...crybaby, on the other hand, is the abject, manipulative little devil with the lawyer and, so to speak, the actionable diaper rash. He is a mayor of Washington, arrested (and captured on videotape) as he smokes crack in a hotel room with a woman not his wife. He pronounces himself a victim -- of the woman, of white injustice, of the universe. Whatever...
...conveniences of the electronic age! At a time when everything from diaper and sushi deliveries to kinky romantic trysts can be had with a few touch tones, yet another novel entry has arrived in this vibrant market-by- wire. Why spend hours traveling to the doctor's office, leafing through out-of-date magazines, waiting for the healer to spare a moment of precious, not to mention expensive time, when one can now get instant medical gratification over the phone? Why not simply dial...
...today. Men have faced warping changes in role models since the women's movement drove the strong, stoic John Wayne-type into the sunset. Replacing him was a new hero: the hollow-chested, sensitive, New Age man who bawls at Kodak commercials and handles a diaper the way Magic Johnson does a basketball. Enter Alan Alda...