Word: mavens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...food might not be up to the standards of deli Maven and professor of law Alan Dershowitz, but it is good enough for me. And I have worked in delis for the past couple of summers...
...firm rhetoric, fluently delivered after four rehearsals and some coaching from image maven Roger Ailes, radiated statesmanship. A compromise, he maintained, was needed not only for the country's economic health but also to permit the U.S. "to function effectively as a great power abroad" -- a potent argument at a time when 100,000 U.S. soldiers are in harm's way in Saudi Arabia. If the negotiations stopped, Bush said, he would demand a decisive vote by Sept. 28 on a comprehensive Administration package. If that failed, he warned, the Gramm-Rudman sequester would ravage public services...
Jokes like these gave the FCC an excuse to muscle and perhaps muzzle the shock jocks, notably New York City's morning maven Howard Stern. Was Stern hurt by this notoriety? Not at all: his show is now aired also in Philadelphia and Washington. Turn him on, and odds are you can't gulp down your morning coffee before you hear him say "penis." Last year, in the guise of his comic superhero Fartman, he placed a call to Iran and mercilessly berated the poor Shi'ite who picked up the phone. Fans of shock-jock jokery highly prize this...
...proximity?" He insisted on a quick trip to Webster's New World Dictionary on a stand in his lush Times office, furnished with the look of a turn-of-the-century men's club. The verdict: the two words are interchangeable. But there was nothing craven about this language maven. Instead, he said with verve, "Now both of us know something we didn't know a moment...