Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lloyd Webber's most inspired choice is his new lyricist, Jim Steinman, the veteran rock composer (Bat Out of Hell; Total Eclipse of the Heart), whose fevered, hyperbolic lyrics have unlocked Lloyd Webber's long-dormant rock tendencies. To be sure, Whistle has its share of elevator-music ballads (though you can pipe No Matter What into my elevator anytime), and the upbeat kids' number When Children Rule the World is easy to make fun of (yet still darn catchy). But the Steinmanesque angst in songs like A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, or the yearning, over...
...good news is that chlamydia can be detected using a culture and completely eradicated with a short course of antibiotics. However, it is also a particularly problematic disease because it may have no visible signs or symptoms and can lie dormant for long periods of time, all the while doing extensive damage to the reproductive system. According to the Centers for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/chlamydia_facts.htm) "Untreated, chlamydia can cause severe costly reproductive and other health problems.... Up to 40 percent of women with untreated chlamydia will develop PID [pelvic inflammatory disease]. ... Of those with PID, 20 percent will become infertile...
Paglia, who received a Ph.D. in literature from Yale in 1972, said the dormant influence of paganism has been most acutely felt in the Renaissance, in Romanticism and in 20th century popular culture...
...only were sales disappointing, but upscale establishments like Bergdorf Goodman, spurning a line that was also available in middle-class department stores, pulled the whole label off their racks. After that debacle Halston's empire collapsed, and he eventually lost control of his name. The label remained dormant until three years ago, when Tropic Tex decided to start it up again and recruited Porcelli, who hired Duke...
...sindonologist Ian Wilson puts it in his new book, The Blood and the Shroud: New Evidence That the World's Most Sacred Relic Is Real (Free Press; 333 pages; $25), "The clear implication was that the shroud itself was, in effect, a photographic negative that had been waiting dormant, like a preprogrammed time capsule, for the moment that photography's invention would release its hidden true 'positive...