Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heterosexual who derives endless amusement from the lengths to which some men will go to avoid appearing even faintly effeminate, which of course is wrongly equated with big, bad homosexuality. We've all seen the momentary panic in the eyes of a man who just admitted he liked "Bambi," or heard the hasty recantations of one whose last statement might possibly be construed as somehow something that a woman would say. I think that's hilarious--not that I never do the same thing. I and a few friends once wore pantyhose to school after some guys on our swim...
Lately, even perfectly horrid experiences have come to take on a strangely sentimental quality. For seniors like me, time that previously seemed monotonous and endless has become punctuated by "lasts": the last shopping period I will every scurry through, the last time I will return to Harvard after winter or spring break, the last time I will wait in line to buy sourcebooks. (Okay, so it's not all that...
...show also gives audiences a chance to say Wilkommen to the latest in a seemingly endless line of young directing phenoms from Britain. Mendes, 32, artistic director of London's adventurous Donmar Warehouse theater, has staged everything from Shakespeare (Ralph Fiennes in Troilus and Cressida) to Stephen Sondheim (revivals of Company and Assassins). For his U.S. debut Mendes has updated an old show with vibrant theatricality in the way Stephen Daldry turned An Inspector Calls into an expressionist nightmare and Nicholas Hytner gave Carousel a lyrical new coat of paint...
...friends out of the isolated, automated, unfulfilling lives they have defaulted into. Then, one December evening just before the turn of the century, Karen's dark premonitions of millennial apocalypse vividly come true in Coupland's hypercolor prose. The six friends become the only survivors in a landscape where "endless cars and trucks and minivans sit on road shoulders harboring cargoes of rotted skeletons." In the future, all humanity has collapsed in sleepy death, money has become worthless, and the endless days are tracked only by the clock on Wendy's PowerBook. "Tennis rackets silently unstring inside dark dry closets...
...they enjoy the activities that they pursue instead of sleep. How very convenient. That way, they can work and have fun, all at the same time. I would imagine that most of us enjoy the things we do--we wouldn't have chosen them otherwise. But is pursuing an endless stream of activities really a substitute for having...