Word: fleetingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During his childhood, Weed could see enough to get around, but his sight proved to be fleeting.
TREES DON'T GROW TO THE SKY" IS the way generations of stock-market traders have rephrased the proverb, What goes up must come down. But that ancient bit of sententiousness is out of favor on Wall Street today. To be sure, no one quite dares to predict that after...
IT WAS A SCENE RIGHT OUT OF THE BIRDS. OUTSIDE the New Hampshire home of former state senator Barbara Pressly on a freezing winter afternoon, a lone cameraman appeared; then a second camera; then four boom mikes. Twenty minutes later, when the press was invited inside, 50 men and women...
The provision of a limited and fleeting public good like a free concert is in no way reflective of this organization's "credibility." The fact that it can throw money at people to put on a show says nothing for the council's effectiveness of representation, its broadening influence with...
Sloan was, as Willem de Kooning would say of himself many years later, a slipping glimpser, with a strong sense of the fleeting moment in which people are caught unawares--arguments on the fire escape, a woman pegging out the wash, lovers furtively embracing on the tenement roof. And though...