Word: flutter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...won’t be the same without seeing McAuliffe’s jersey flutter as she flies down the ice, nor will things seem right without watching Ruggiero take control of the puck in the defensive zone and take over the game as she skates to the other end. Nor will it be the same without having their jokes and antics in post-game interviews...
...best board-certified plastic surgeon royalties could buy and had the operation at a respected hospital but still had a bad reaction to anesthesia. Her death was not necessarily related to plastic surgery; it might very well have happened during an emergency appendectomy. It did, however, cause a momentary flutter in the plastic-surgery community. Doctors across Florida, California and New York said they received a few concerned calls from patients that week. But virtually no surgeons reported any cancellations. And the phones kept ringing for new appointments. --With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles and Siobhan Morrissey/Miami
Figurative artists have always quoted from the past, but Currin, like a good postmodernist, puts his quotes in big quotation marks. Walk through any of the later galleries in the Whitney show, and what you experience is a sustained conceptual flutter, a continual flickering between high and low, Mannerism and kitsch, Parmigianino and sleazerino. It's a strategy that makes his work radical and familiar at the same time, like an especially snappy new running shoe, which in any market is never a bad idea...
Generations of superheroes can’t be wrong. Enter a room with a flutter. Leave with a flourish. Contain body heat on cold nights. Hide a dagger inside and be ready to pounce. Nobody messes with an armed man, and with a cape nobody can know for sure that you aren’t. Especially necessary if the codpiece fails to return...
There is a model for this kind of intentionally unpolished candidacy, and his name is John McCain. Like McCain's, Dean's "straight" talk can lurch from anger to humor, from conviction to waffle, in quick succession. Consider this flitter and flutter from Meet the Press in June: "I really don't like the idea of a federal balanced-budget amendment, but I am very tempted ... You might just have to do it. [But] I hate to do it because we didn't have to do it in Vermont ..." So which is it? But also consider this rocket he hurled...