Word: gogo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Hollywood's famous Sunset Strip lay beyond the grasp of the Los Angeles police department, and it sheltered illicit casinos and speakeasy bars, patronized by gangsters and movie stars. During the '60s West Hollywood attracted hippies, druggies and rock-music clubs such as the Troubador and Whisky a GoGo. A decade later West Hollywood welcomed a migration of Russian Jews fleeing Soviet oppression and an influx of homosexuals weary of perceived harassment by the LAPD...
...book of Buddha's thought to both Reagan and Sovier leader Konstans U. Chernenko. He objects strongly to the gift of Plato's Republic because "that book has produced dictatorships." The Curator Middle Eastern Ethnology at the Peabody Musum would like for himself "a painting as marvelous Van Gogo's 'Portrait of the Peabody to hang in my office...
...size. Uptown and down, there are plenty of racial stereotypes to go around. One that dies particularly hard for downtowners is that when uptown kids dress to chill, they turn themselves out like some wild amalgam of Cab Galloway going for broke and Isaac Hayes going to a gogo. That is inaccurate, but it does have one small home truth: musicians, more than anyone else, set the style, just as, this minute, rap music is setting the beat...
...main task was to update Roget's often Victorian language, deleting some of the fustier phrases, adding or redefining 20,000 others, including, for example, Watergate, streaking, hype and quadraphonic sound. "A modern man or woman," she says, "may work as an ombudsman, a psephologist, a spokesperson, a gogo dancer or a deejay." But the disturbed newspaper reaction came from the fact that Lloyd's updating featured an assault on sexism. Indeed, the word sexist has been added to the new edition of the thesaurus, right after "biased, twisted, jaundiced." Women are no longer listed...