Word: mod
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia NEARLY EVERYBODY READS THE BULLETIN, when the Washington Star faithfully reflected the "cliff-dwellers" in the nation's capital. Later, attempting to change with the times, but perhaps too late in doing so, proud papers like these became more like the QE2 with its disco sounds and mod settings-up to date but still not able to attract the crowds...
...only to lose momentum when the story proved to be false. Kaufman believes in personal as well as financial discipline: he has no hobbies and rises regularly at 5:55 a.m. to reach his office by 7:30. But he still has hints of flair, including a taste for mod double-breasted suits, gourmet restaurants and vintage wines...
...long while has so much knowledge led to so much power as it has with David Stockman, head of the Office of Management and Budget. The man with the mod-cut mop of hair, engaging smile and soft voice may be the greatest human repository of information on the U.S. Government now in Washington...
...machines shipped from France because they were defective. Recalls Sontheimer: "It was a major disaster, and by then I'd really had it. Robot-Coupe was not innovative, and their quality control was low." He struck a deal with a Japanese manufacturer to produce new mod els of the Cuisinart to augment his line, and before long he was selling more Japanese than French processors. Out raged executives at Robot-Coupe charged that Sontheimer was no longer promoting their models, and last year they severed his French connection...
This is unquestionably true. The difficulty arises when Epstein attempts to stretch a valid literary observation into a broad cultural thesis. Nearly all modern literatures question the aims of money and power. But so, rightly or wrongly, do mod ern unions, consumer groups and havenots. Epstein leaves the impression that Americans are stewing in ambivalence because they have read Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg. Publishing sales figures would not support such an impression...