Word: lip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THING THE BRITISH RULING classes learned in their centuries of imperial domain was how to suffer at the hands of lower orders they could not control. They got the starch in that stiff upper lip from pretending not to be shocked or exasperated at the outrages of unruly colonials to whom they played nanny. Now, with the empire in eclipse, Britons have turned inward to the late 20th century task of controlling themselves and found that the new ordeal is no less vexing than the old. Their hearts may explode through their Savile Row vests, but it's stiff upper...
...chance to pitch their favorite nostrums to the President-elect. It provided the public with an exhaustive review of the tough choices on taxes and spending that face Clinton and the country. And it also allowed Clinton to present himself in a flattering light: attentive, whip-smart and lip-bitingly empathetic; the reading glasses perched soberly at the end of his bulbous nose lent a touch of presidential gravitas to his boyish looks...
...addition to Retin A, the report mentions silicone injections, not approved for treating wrinkles, and collagen injections, approved for treating wrinkles but promoted by companies for improper use in lip enlargements...
...prevailing view among middle-of-the-road Catholics appears to be that no letter at all would have been better than the tepid lip service embodied in the fourth draft. "It has been revised and qualified into insignificance," says theologian Rausch with a shrug. On the left, Ruth Fitzpatrick, leader of Women's Ordination Conference, finds it "pitiful that after nine years of work, this shoddy piece of paper is the best they can come up with." Feminist Schneiders argues that "you cannot say, 'Sexism is a sin except when we practice it.' Sexual apartheid is not acceptable...
...really going to crumble that old, tired Hollywood axiom that the white moviegoing masses are not going to see a black film that's a drama, or a film that's not a comedy and musical, or that doesn't have Eddie Murphy in it. Because no matter what lip service those executives say, that is still their belief. Just look at TV. Every single show that is about black folks, they're all situation comedies. I mean, you can't get drama out of our lives? But that's because they feel that white people won't be interested...