Word: lustier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back two centuries, an accumulation of the experience of politicians, lobbyists, journalists, tycoons, labor skates, hustlers, social climbers, clergy, judges, tourists, professors, bureaucrats and any number of crooks, white collar and otherwise. In short, it has served as America come to the front office to complain. Washington is bigger, lustier and louder than ever, and it is still the final point of impact on the presidency...
...Germaine Greer [BEHAVIOR, April 16] more than a decade ago, in her lustier days, at a women's conference in Brussels. She talked about phallic architecture and admired the young bellhops. "You know," she said, "when there are dirty old women just as there are dirty old men, we will have achieved liberation." I am sorry that she has cleaned up her act. Perhaps that comes with age, even to liberated women. But I hope that still more advanced age will give Greer some compassion for the elderly and will erase her romantic notions of the Third World...
...Yanks are coming with cameras and phrase books and something new: pocket calculators, which have become essential for translating the volatile currencies of Europe into dollars. The dollar, as everyone knows, has never been lustier abroad,* and Americans are in the mood to spend. To encourage them, European Travel Commission ads across the U.S. proclaim: EUROPE! THE GRANDEST HOLIDAY OF ALL. NOW MORE AFFORDABLE THAN EVER. The Paris daily Le Figaro scolds the mother country for not wooing the American dollar more actively this summer and urges with a wiggle: "The objective in 1984 is to seduce the Americans...
...rich have rediscovered the Gold Coast's Palm Beach County. Though it includes the town of Palm Beach, this incubator for the newly wealthy is snob years distant from that small, code-ridden oasis of blue blood and encrusted money. The Gold Coast nouveaux, for the most part lustier, sportier and much younger than the ancien régime of Worth Avenue, converge from all over the world to flaunt their millions. As Ralph Destino, president of Cartier, puts it, "They've carved out a new and unique style. There's nothing anywhere that parallels...