Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life-style. Like sneakers and blue jeans, sandwiches are comfortable, adaptable and practical. They can be dressed up with the best beluga caviar and finest Scotch smoked salmon or reduced to the simplest school-lunch-box peanut-butter-and-jelly combination or even a "Fluffernutter" (peanut butter with Marshmallow Fluff, the rage with the kindergarten set). Sandwiches may be dainty, crustless cucumber-and-watercress creations for genteel tea parties or towering copies of the Dagwood, the raid-the-refrigerator construction invented by Blondie's husband Dagwood Bumstead. Determined to add as much as possible to his nocturnal feast...
...have even seen this movie--albeit in a slightly different form--by the same director in 1967, when divorce was a prime subject for light-hearted cinematic fluff, in Yorkin's Divorce: American Style starring Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke and Jason Robards. Those were the good old days, when a husband and wife would have a fight, get divorced on the spur of the moment, get remarried in a similarly shot-gun manner, then realize that they had just made the biggest mistake of their lives and rectify it by getting back together with their own true love...
...with any country and western product, "Old Ways" is a few nuggets wrapped in a heap of simple-minded fluff. But Young makes no apologies. Rather, as in "Once an Angel," an insipid 6-8 love ode, and "Bound for Glory," a sweet if inconclusive ballad about a trucker committing adultery in the Canadian boondocks, the perennially angst-ridden Young has found a new peace...
...elaborate practical joke lies in the fact that Insignificance backfires at precisely its most seductive point: it makes us feel guilty for our curiosity. First we are encouraged in a galloping case of Peeping Tomism, then we are slapped on the wrists for expecting anything but coy, hyperventilated fluff...
...paper's Sunday magazine, he took over the Style section in 1976. Coffey won a reputation as an imaginative editor who had a deft hand with journalists as well as copy. An intense worker who sometimes called writers late at night to discuss stories, Coffey shook most of the fluff out of Style's pages and introduced more late-breaking news. Named an assistant managing editor in charge of national news in December, Coffey was considered a contender to succeed Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee...