Word: mold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus, though some men are more genetically prone to seek thrills than others, men in general take fewer risks if married with children than if unattached. Though some people may be genetically prone to high self-esteem, everyone's self-esteem depends heavily on social feedback. Genes even mold personality to our place in the family environment, according to Frank Sulloway, author of Born to Rebel, the much discussed book on birth order. Parents who clone their obedient oldest child may be dismayed to find that the resulting twin, now lower in the family hierarchy, grows...
...Waters who gave him the chance to break that mold before it was fully hardened. "I told him if he did Cry-Baby, we'd kill that image," he says. "So he parodied himself by playing a teen idol, and it totally worked." Then Tim Burton gave him the opportunity to bury it for good with Edward Scissorhands, in which Depp played an abandoned monster with cutlery where his digits should have been, trying with sweetly contained but (considering his weaponry) dangerous eagerness to adjust to suburban normalcy. Everyone from moony adolescents to case-hardened movie critics could read...
...other words, Lyric Stage's production of Blithe Spirit fits the mold. Just as Coward himself was perceived in the first half of the century, it deserves both adoration and derision. Blithe Spirit is splendidly witty at some points and horribly tedious in others...
...Commercially, I don't know if there's much of a market for that these days," he said. "A lot of country music, especially, seems to just fit this one mold...
What is being done for (or perhaps to) today's unconventional children? Those who don't fit into standard or acceptable modes of teacher-student or parent-child interaction are still obliged to function within those structures, somehow, someway. We all know kids who fit the mold of not fitting the mold. We volunteer with them, we babysit them, and perhaps at one point we were even one of them...