Word: edgier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Library in Washington. "He has a witty and inventive spirit, and several of his plays are as great as any plays that Shakespeare wrote," she adds, citing The Changeling, Women, Beware Women and The Revenger's Tragedy as examples. The idea now is to push him as a grittier, edgier alternative. Middleton knew that sex sells, and he filled his plays with it: sometimes nasty, often funny, and always about who comes out on top. Taking advantage of Middleton's raging literary libido, Taylor is promoting the book with a lecture tour on sex in Middleton's plays...
...South Africa by lodging at the Grace Hotel (www .grace.co.za/the_grace) in the leafy Johannesburg suburb of Rosebank. The hotel, built in 1997, captures the romance of Africa's colonial past, with its country-style bedrooms and a menu featuring traditional favorites such as ostrich. For an edgier feel, you can head to the ultramodern Melrose Arch Hotel www.africanpridehotels.com...
...horse-race metaphor. "We're pursuing a strategy that aims at doing well in Iowa and going on from there." And lately Obama seems to have shifted into a different gear, one that suggests some urgency to gain ground. His debate performances have gotten sharper. He has a new, edgier stump speech that pounds harder at his theme of change and attempts to paint Clinton as what his strategists call a quasi-incumbent. Obama is embracing a more populist approach. His speech to Service Employees International Union members helped persuade them to hold off on an expected endorsement of Edwards...
Take a quick look around. This is not your grandmother's Neiman Marcus. In the past five years, denim (of a certain pedigree) has exploded. Younger, edgier lines like Phillip Lim and Twenty8-Twelve, Sienna and Savannah Miller's new line, are cropping up and thriving. "We've had this enormous contemporary business that grew overnight," Stordahl says...
...earshot of the royal family, this was also the place to deal in harsher, edgier thoughts. Rosemary, a Londoner in her 50s who declined to give her last name, insisted that Diana "got a raw deal." Another woman lamented her "appalling treatment from day one of her marriage." Laminated newspaper stories smearing Prince Charles were pinned to the gates. One banner, screaming "LONG LIVE THE QUEEN/DIANA FOREVER," was far less polite about Charles and Camilla, Charles' life-long love who is now his wife. The reason a decade hasn't dimmed Diana's memory, said a third woman, "is that...