Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hormone therapy for the rest of my life, but I think it's a good trade-off to being healthy and being able to live a normal life," Janowski says...
...join those already won by his Louis XV in Monte Carlo--has traditionalists sniffing that the master rarely actually cooks at either restaurant, but Ducasse likes to compare himself to an haute couture designer who depends on a team to execute his visions. "O.K., in France that's not normal," he says, "but I'm changing normality...
...ceremony was short, subdued, and without ostentation. Only afterward, in the church's reception room, did the voices return to normal. Wine, homemade pastries, and sweets were served." It is in this simple way that Aharon Appelfeld's The Conversion opens, and the novel to come will be as short, subdued and without ostentation as the beginning three lines. In the midst of this deceptively unadorned prose, however, lurks the seed of an almost unimagineably horrible tale, which Appelfeld manages to recount in completely nonjudgmental strokes. Ultimately, it's clear why Appelfeld has been called a "worthy successor to Kafka...
Sullivan said although he hasn't seen the final plans for the project, the design should also maximize use of the space. The playground's basketball and tennis courts, as well as other equipment, get worn down every five or ten years due to normal use, he said...
...think beautiful people are born with normal intelligence. But they quickly realize they don't need to fill their brains with unpleasant concepts such as nonlinear geometry and fluid dynamics. Beautiful people know they will never be asked to build a communications satellite or invent a vaccine. They know they can get all the money they need by charging ugly people to look at them. This commerce takes many forms, including marriage, television and Cosmopolitan magazine...