Word: modishness
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...February 10, 1997. Fish, samurai, world traveller, Lensky was named for the romantic poet of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" who is killed in a duel with the novel's title character. Lensky himself never led the romantic life that his namesake fancy, but he did exhibit the feeling of modish spleen of the 19th-century aristocratic like the characters in Pushkin's novel. Lensky could always be found languoring in his bowl, not doing much of anything, a bored, flat expression on his face...
What a difference a decade makes. Mediagenic writers like Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz once held the limelight with modish novels about fast life in the 1980s. But those authors have now faded into their own material, symbols of the superficialities they exploited in their fiction...
What this bill cannot do is bring us socialism's benefits without socialism's cost. So it is yet another example of America's hunger for the free lunch. And it is a free lunch of a particularly modish sort--the free lunch of moderation. Kassebaum-Kennedy is everything people claim to hunger for in public policy: bipartisan, high-minded, incremental, nonideological. Kennedy has said, "There will be those who say [this bill] goes too far in some areas--and there will be those who say it does not go far enough." This might be called the Baby Bear approach...
...Harvard's French Department is not highly regarded, because it is viewed as a hotbed of modish feminist criticism," Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam wrote in a February op-ed piece...
...trend in Bond movies could actually be more of an Americanization than simply a commercialization. Nowadays there are a lot more big explosions--hallmarks of Hollywood action hits such as "Die Hard" and "Lethal Weapon"--and fewer screwy plot twists and secret hideouts. Moreover, the modish European aesthetic of the '60s and '70s has given way to American-style glamor. What was once slick and suave is now just overkill. As the end result, we have only the gloating of an automobile manufacturer...