Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well as English, refer to the suddenly woozy singer? Naturally enough, conventions of the language demanded a hyphenated modifier. "Much-troubled" might have been acceptable, but that adjective is reserved, as are "oil-rich" and "war-torn," for stories about the Middle East. One tabloid, apparently eager to dismiss the celebrity as a wanton hussy, called him "gender-confused pop star Boy George." This was a clear violation of journalese's "most-cherished tenet": while doing in the rich and famous, never appear to be huffy. One magazine settled for "cross- dressing crooner," and many newspapers temporarily abandoned the hyphenated...
...editor in chief of Connoisseur magazine and the leading impresario of fine-art hyperbole, proclaims that the group is "unique in art history -- to suddenly have before you this monumental body of great American painting. It's a mighty poke, a sharp stick between the eyes of those who dismiss Wyeth as nostalgic. It's his weapon, his dissent. He's shouting, 'No one will ever write me out of history...
...possible, of course, to dismiss such demands as no more than an opening bargaining position, designed to seize the high ground at negotiations. But there are no negotiations under way now, and scant prospect of them in the short term. The memorandum is, it seems, a revolutionary document. "The people," it pledges, "are determined to continue the process of building people's power in our communities, factories and schools regardless of the cost. The possibilities of freedom and democracy are no longer dim and distant. Our victory is certain...
This is hardly grounds to dismiss her party's legitimacy, since Republican candidate Gregory S. Hyatt felt obliged to forge signatures in order to meet one-quarter of that requirement...
YMCA officials dismiss charges that they are crowding private gyms. Commercial operators, says John Ouellet, president of the Los Angeles YMCA, would no doubt prefer the Y to "put up a building as dilapidated as the one we tore down." When private clubs fail, he contends, the reason is often poor management, not competition from a well-equipped Y. If anyone is encroaching, say YMCA officials, it is the private operators. The Y has been touting fitness for more than a century. Declares Thomas Hargrave Jr., president of the Washington YMCA: "We started the health-and-fitness business...