Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since silicone breast implants were introduced 30 years ago, millions of women have sworn by their results. For most, the ample gel-filled sacs provided a welcome boost in self-esteem. For 1 out of 4 recipients, they brought a return to normality after the trauma of mastectomy. So when anecdotal reports of health problems associated with the devices began cropping up over the past several years, women were first alarmed, then hugely relieved when surgeons asserted that the stories were groundless. Now their confidence has once again been shaken...
...those women who wailed "How could she do it?" when Gloria Steinem, the world's most famous feminist, began keeping company with demibillionaire real estate developer and aspiring journalist Mort Zuckerman in the late '80s, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (Little, Brown; 377 pages; $22.95) will serve as belated explanation...
...never supported the idea were blaming it for everything from male impotence to global warming. By the time she sank into the soft leather interior of the car that night at La Guardia, she was insecure as a junk bond, without energy, without hope and without enough self-esteem to resist this inappropriate but eager suitor. "This relationship," she writes, "became a final clue that I was really lost...
Christopher Columbus, hero of 1492, came under attack as a ruthless invader. A bad year, all in all, for dead white males . . . And some live ones: Mark Spitz and Bjorn Borg hoped to relive their heydays but found it takes more than high self-esteem to be a world-class athlete . . . The 1970s were the years that taste forgot. Why celebrate platform shoes and Partridge Family LPs? Keep them in the attic where they belong...
Their self-esteem, for once, would soar...