Word: faint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Really? Dismay over movies and TV at a time when "virgin" couldn't be uttered in a film and Lucy and Ricky couldn't say "pregnant" to describe her condition? Concern over values and behavior when the out-of-wedlock birthrate was 2%, when the first faint chords of rock 'n' roll were yet to be heard in mainstream America...
...unruly Dream Teamers, a narrative in which he manages convincingly to describe his frustration at being edged out by Johnnie Cochran while also insisting that his diminished role had been planned all along. Shapiro is skilled, in fact, at doling out praise that is either damning or faint, sometimes both: Marcia Clark was an "honorable adversary," he notes before launching into an embarrassing tale about Clark's ex-husband, the professional backgammon player. Darden, he writes in a sly twofer, "hadn't mastered (if indeed he wanted to) Johnnie Cochran's self-proclaimed adeptness at not ever letting people know...
McIntosh also attests to Kaczynski's anti-social habits. "I have a faint memory of trying to get to know him by sitting down with him at dinner. He would smile kind of furtively, then linger for a moment or two and excuse himself and leave," McIntosh says...
Longtime DOOMers may initially be shocked by how rough this Quake test is. There are no monsters or menu screens, and only three small levels. Running this test version is not for the faint of heart; it confronts the player with an interface modeled on Unix programming languages...
Unsurprisingly, many of these episodes must have meant more to a sixty-something Fellini in 1980 than to the average contemporary movie-goer. The vision of tightly tank-topped biker chicks possessed by a rock and roll frenzy looks more comic than frightening. The faint soupcon of lesbianism seems a little timid and fastidious by today's standards...