Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Love him or hate him, President Carlos Saul Menem is never dull. Since taking office in 1989, he has been embroiled in enough scandals to sink a boatload of American politicians...
...truth is, from the point of view of the working press, it's generally pretty dull stuff. Hours are spent hanging around the courthouse waiting to be one of the 16 reporters admitted to the drab little courtroom in which the case is being tried. The rest of the time, the hundreds of journalists (including several dozen from France, England, Germany, Spain and Italy) lounge around a makeshift media center watching Court TV, which they could do in their hotel rooms. At one point, a reporter sitting in a room full of 90 journalists, who are watching the trial...
...become one of the fastest-growing major cities in America. In Fresno people had always felt that they were in California but not of it -- a little bit of Iowa under the palm trees. Now their sleepy farm town is growing nearly as fast as crops planted in the dull, rich land of the surrounding San Joaquin Valley...
...charging lion, which sniffed and retreated in apparent acknowledgment of a fellow animal presence. But the memory may be a mere metaphor for the kind of masculinity he is trying to keep alive. The facts ultimately matter far less than the moral dilemma: whether to mire oneself in dull decency, like the nice nurse whose family can devote a whole conversation to the merits of new shoes, or succumb to seductive selfishness...
...convention of taste in the aesthetic debris left in the '80s' wake. The galleries of Europe and America are stuffed with inert, overconceptualized boilerplate, from Koons to Haim Steinbach, that gets praised for its "criticality" but, as a footnote exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery shows, is complacent and dull beyond belief. It "addresses" mass media and mass taste, but with a mincing snootiness unknown...