Word: morbidly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Able to perform before they’re able to think for themselves, they capture our attention with almost morbid curiosity. They come to center stage through “Star Search,” Miss Teen USA pageants or even The Mickey Mouse Club. They are paraded, poked, prodded and preened by over-zealous manager-parents. They are subjected to intense media scrutiny, and we wonder, “When will they break?” They are the über-teeny-boppers—adolescent artists performing for a juvenile audience—and there?...
...Even in Washington, Cold War victory has left an ambiguous legacy. An inevitable showdown with an "Evil Empire" is no longer the organizing principle of national politics. The symptoms of that absence are varied and often morbid, from the new depths of tabloid tawdriness plumbed in Washington's partisan battles over the past decade to the palpable absence of a sense of national purpose or global mission in the capital...
...economic news is all it takes to rouse Wall Streeters from their morbid agnosticism, the Dow would have hit 36,000 back in March. These days, good news from Main Street is just plain good news. And Tuesday actually cooperated, if only in the wan, incremental proportions that is the best good news we get these days...
...just about tips, though. Throughout the sites, visitors are bombarded by images of waif-thin models and movie stars. Some have been altered to appear emaciated. Others are, perhaps even more disturbingly, left untouched. Either way, the effect is immediate: Revulsion followed by a kind of morbid fascination. How on earth did she get to be that thin? Then, clicking away, moving on to the next screen, a barrage of "Thinsprirations," as one site names its pro-thin quotes. ("Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels," reads...
...that people were fascinated by the story in the slightly prurient way that we all can't help but look at the slow-motion video of a car crash. And, yes, I knew that as an editor I could fashion some journalistic angle that would justify dwelling on the morbid tick-tock of the killings. We could look at post-partum depression or why she "snapped", or the role of the father or her doctor or any number of possible explanations...