Word: fin
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...once tried to invent a fin that would help people swim underwater," Biddle says. "It didn't work, but that shows his zany side...
...most vulnerable. So White finds women and children particularly difficult to understand. Another early sign is poor discrimination of consonants, which--in both male and female speech--tend to be higher in pitch and lower in intensity than vowels, so that thin, for example, may be indistinguishable from fin or shin...
There's a term in the arts-fin-de-siecle-for end-of-the-century ennui. So why none for the vague sense of disappointment when a century begins and precious little changes? In the year 2000--the year 2000!--we were supposed to be listening to Theremin symphonies and watching theater in our heads. Instead, we were slinging misogynist raps and hosting game shows, just like yesterday...
...exhibit works hard to capture Day's eccentricities. Several large glass cases contain an exquisite series of fine books produced by the firm Copeland and Day, a publishing venture specializing in decadent fin-de-sicle literature that preceded Day's career in photography. Each photograph is matted in the Arts and Crafts style that Day preferred, often using blues and browns as well as off-white. Some mats even include a thin orange square to contrast with the colorless images...
...What about Americans coming of age right now? How are they being formed by the sunny affluence (and undercurrent jitters) of the fin de Clinton? Is the election of 2000 teaching them anything...