Word: oblivions
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...home one Friday night last November. "Mary Beth," she says, tucking her chin, locking her jaw and dropping a register or two, "this is John Kerry." Mary Beth Cahill knew why he was calling. The presidential candidate whom everyone had once anointed the Democratic front runner was careering toward oblivion. Kerry was about to fire his campaign manager and wanted Senator Edward Kennedy's chief of staff to take over an operation that was short on money, full of backbiting and left in the dust by the Internet-and-anger-fueled phenomenon that was Howard Dean. "So I showed...
...peppermint pink bustier glows beside a 1962 cotton sundress and a Christian Dior cashmere sweater circa 1980. Shoppers at Vylette in Austin, Texas, peruse the latest collections from Lacoste and Marc by Marc Jacobs along with vintage khaki skirts and crocheted sweaters--many of them rescued from oblivion by one of the store owners' mothers, who frequents garage sales...
...think of it, beauty pageants, college applications and online social networks aren’t exactly dissimilar as far as knowingly superficial yet nonetheless nail-biting contests of social acceptance go. Now that we’re here at college, the practice of scheduling our days into red-penned oblivion means that for better or worse, our activities and consumption patterns have become a shorthand for who we actually are. What better way, then, to interact with each other than through sets of questionnaires which filter our acquaintances by way of these exacting criteria...
There was, however, one moment which has remained etched in my memory and will do so long after the gooey romantic storylines and well-worn punchlines have faded into oblivion. But, before we get there, here’s a quick explanation of who the hell I am. I was born in New York to American parents, who moved to England when I was eight months old. I was educated in England, but returned to America during school holidays to visit my grandparents, and then came to Harvard three and a half years ago. In short, I sound English...
...industry, refusing to bend to the pressures of Tinseltown. And now Winger has taken on a crusade to rescue Breathing for a Living—the posthumously-published memoir of her goddaughter Laura Rothenberg, who died of cystic fibrosis in March at the age of 23—from oblivion...