Word: fey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harder to articulate in an entertainment product, and in reality." Or perhaps it's that men's magazines and TV shows are simply offering up images of masculinity that stand in high relief to the ones recent pop culture has provided: the wimpy and neurotic males on Friends, the fey brothers Crane on Frasier, the emotionally broken Detective Sipowicz of NYPD Blue, the guys in the movie Swingers, whose nostalgia for Rat Pack swagger never really expresses itself in anything beyond a taste for suits and cocktails...
...hand" [NOTEBOOK, March 15], Joel Stein writes, "A woman who must have been a model removed a bottle from her purse. She raised it high and squirted a long stream down onto her cupped hands." The woman must have been very nimble, three-armed or a magician. CHRISTOPHER FEY Los Angeles...
...instruct his readers. He might have been able to appreciate this latest of pop goddesses, this star of the Lilith Fair. After all, it was a Nabokov character who said that while he was capable of loving Eve, "it was Lilith he longed for." Jewel's is a fey, insidious charm, equal parts worldly and naive, where flaws--the crooked nose and crooked teeth she is so proud of--only betray an uncommon beauty. Then there is the improbable match of slender youth and that voice--an astonishingly versatile instrument ranging from soul-shattering yodels to the most eloquent...
Spirituality is not necessarily other-worldly and fey, although it is frequently portrayed as such. As your report suggests, spirituality manifests itself in some enormously practical ways, such as physical healing. But you make it sound as though Christian Scientists consider spiritual engagement merely a "paramount medical technique." To us, spirituality is the natural outcome of an understanding and loving God, whom we believe to be the Spirit. ENID M. GORMAN New York City...
...many of us, it was a time of wild mood swings in which the dream-like unreality of a Harvard in near chaos was periodically trumped by the anxious reality of a draft lottery, if not a draft notice. The fey Brattle Street bohemian culture that greeted us in 1967--cool was defined as seeing "Casablanca" repeatedly during reading period--was superseded by the apocalyptic visions of "2001" and "Let It Bleed...