Word: guyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like most things these days, it began innocently in an e-mail message. "Wait a second," I typed. "Who is this Ellis guy, anyway? B4 we interview him I'd like to know. =@)" Admittedly, the "B4" and "=@)" were lame and unnecessary--I was towards the end of a brief and disastrous experimental period with special e-mail shorthand and parenthetical-math sign-smiley faces. But the electronic response did not critique this visual jargon; instead, what I received was a nasty and merciless attack on my cultural skills and knowledge...
...with Ally Sheedy getting made over at the end with the bow in her hair so that she can go out with Emilio Estevez? That's a triumph? I mean, that's really a triumph--for the cool artsy girl to realize that the only way to get a guy is to put make-up on, put her hair up in a bow, get rid of her black turtleneck and leggings?! That was what they were telling kids in the Reagan years during their teenage years?! That is so shocking...
...drugmakers). If you own too much stock in the company for which you've worked for decades--a common condition in these days of company stock options and company-stock matches in 401(k) plans--an unexpected setback for that company or its industry could wipe you out. Guy Cambie, a certified financial planner in Austin, Texas, urges investors to divorce themselves from the sentiment of any particular stock. One solution: mutual funds, in which, as Cambie notes, diversification is done...
...starring Anne Cusack, is one of the rare TV depictions of a woman feeling trapped in her marriage at mid-life. Forty years old and and a bit bored with her cardiologist husband of 20 years, she goes to veterinary school and soon after begins to fall for another guy. Whether or not she will pursue him forms the show's narrative arc. Oh Baby gives us Cynthia Stevenson as a woman in her late 30s who, in the third year of a relationship with a guy who won't leave his toothbrush at her house, realizes she would...
...Yahoo (which is free), but most contenders were less appealing than the last-call crowd at a singles bar. A startling number of men thought the most important thing for me to know was their waist size or the precise angle of their hairline. And there was the guy who directed me to his personal website, filled with pin-up shots, including one of him in the buff. Charming...