Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas of 1989, during the violent days of the Romanian Revolution, a taste of freedom filled the heart of the people. It revived memories in the elderly who experienced democracy before the war. It gave an ecstatic feeling to intellectuals who had heard about the world beyond the Iron Curtain. And it baffled the minds of those who were too young to understand why the only world they knew was changing...
...social reality shifted from the farm and the village to the impacted, simmering cities, a distinct visual aesthetic was bound to rise from American utilitarianism. It showed itself earliest--and most dramatically--in the art where science, material and common social needs intersected: architecture. Its great expression was the iron grid, which begat the skyscraper. The technology of cast-iron joists and columns as the skeleton of a multistory building had come from Europe, but it mutated and ramified in the U.S., especially in New York City. There early architects like Daniel Badger (1806-84) popularized it and crossed...
...seems determined to retain the iron cage of the Core program despite students inside clamoring to get out, wanting to learn more than the Core teaches them. It seems ironic to us that the Faculty's decisions are rooted not in a pedagogic desire to inculcate students with a solid liberal arts education but rather in a perverse need to maintain a failed system for the sake of the system itself. Beside increasing student choice, departmental bypasses will allow increased learning. The Faculty should be more concerned with student education and less concerned with bureaucracy...
...area yet," he says of the economic boom, one day after his sales of patio furniture jumped 100% over the same day last year. The next morning, Charles and Shirley Warner come in to buy their grandchild a swing set and walk out with $476 worth of green wrought-iron furniture. "I don't do this much, but my work is good," says Charles, who toils nearby at the huge Mead Fine Paper plant. In March, Orem sold every bag of Easter candy he ordered. That wasn't supposed to happen. Since then, flowers are up 15%; shoes...
Their favorite King is dead, they're sans uniforms, and their faces are a bit battle-worn. The Three Musketeers as featured in The Man in the Iron Mask are clearly not the devil-may-care dudes on the candy-bar wrapper. But the stars of the new film based on the last book in Alexandre Dumas's trilogy find the long-in-the-tooth trio with more savoir faire. "They still have a little swash, a little buckle," says JEREMY IRONS, who plays Aramis. "But they are older and wiser." GERARD DEPARDIEU is Porthos, JOHN MALKOVICH is Athos...