Word: notionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Once the classic fallback answer for the daily question of what to wear, jeans now pose an even bigger question: Which ones? Stone washed, distressed, low rise, sanded, boiled, whiskered, shredded, patched, relaxed fit, straight leg, boot leg, flare or with personally customized finish? The notion that jeans are the color they have faded to is passe. At the Gap they have run from "blasted bluegrass" to "moonlight." Next season there will be 15 more hues (or "washes," as they are called) to choose from--all blue...
...these terms is Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and even in his own Labor Party his views are considered somewhat eccentric.) The deteriorating situation on the ground may soon leave Washington and its allies with the choice of either letting the two sides bleed, or else contemplating the politically perilous notion of forcibly separating them...
...early 2000 had started moving up sharply about 10 minutes before her report, while stocks she mentioned in a negative way had moved down, according to a new study by Jeffrey Busse and Clifton Green, finance professors at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. The study supports the notion that Wall Streeters have fed Bartiromo market-moving information and traded before she aired it. In his book Trading with the Enemy, Nicholas Maier alleges that his former boss, trader and pundit Jim Cramer, was one of those who gamed Bartiromo. Cramer denies the accusation. Says CNBC: "We firmly stand...
...teenager, he went with a baseball bat to some drug dealer's house and was going to just beat him to death. I was crying out of one eye and smiling out of the other. Crying because I had thought my son didn't have any notion of my drug problem. (We all think we're so sharp.) And smiling because he cared that much. And that just straightened me out, realizing the responsibility I had, knowing I had to become a good example instead...
...fact, we may be getting a bit quick building our memorials, in an unspoken effort to rush through a state of mourning - an offshoot of the nonsensical notion of "closure." Death occurs, and in no time up pop communal memorial gestures - flowers and messages borne to suddenly consecrated places such as Strawberry Fields and John Kennedy Jr.'s doorstep. Hasty or not, memorials have clearly become one of the nation's meeting places. The most artistic pop culture representation of this new sense of comfort is the HBO series, "Six Feet Under," in which the dead do not simply walk...