Word: fancifulism
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ANYTIME IT SEEMS THAT THE MESS IN BOSNIA CANnot get any more complex, or deadly, it promptly does. Now food is being used as a weapon -- by Serbs and Croatians against Muslims, and by Muslims against themselves. And its use has started an internal feud among U.N. officials. Enraged by...
Getting to this point logically is harder than it sounds. The love-as- cultural-delusion argument has long seemed unassailable. What actually accounts for the emotion, according to this scenario, is that people long ago made the mistake of taking fanciful literary tropes seriously. Ovid's Ars Amatoria is often...
Feeling that the word impotence had perjorative implications, a scientific panel last week suggested replacing it with a more neutral term, erectile dysfunction. Such coinages seem to be becoming increasingly common. Some other real and fanciful euphemetamophisms of ordinary language:
It's all part of the newest spin in computing: taking off-the-shelf personal computers and giving them a personal stamp. Workers tired of staring at the same old screens can now choose from a growing shelf of software that lets them customize just about any feature of their...
But it is Columbus, a director who can make a routine shot of a couple of airplanes taking off artful and full of portent, who completes our entrancement. He has -- no kidding -- a vision of New York City, a nicely dislocating blend of charm and grunge. It's not quite...