Word: omen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...masterpiece, Van Gogh's Portrait of the Postmaster Roulin, for an undisclosed price, the museum sold and exchanged seven paintings. But this encourages museum trustees to think of the permanent collection as an impermanent one, a kind of stock portfolio that can be traded at will: not a good omen...
Perhaps it is a good omen that the candidate who wrote that ad was not elected to the council...
LOOK at the book's opening sentence: "Maybe it comes from living in San Francisco, city of clammy humors and foghorns that warn and warn--omen, o-o-men, o dolorous men, o dolors of omens--and not enough sun, but Wittman Ah Sing considered suicide every day." This phrase could be the bad opening of a bad novel, the unwieldy preface to an overbearing descriptive work, the sort of thing the Surrealists objected to in their first manifesto. Except, in this case it is intentional...
Late on the morning of Saturday, April 8, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, Mexico's most notorious drug trafficker, awoke with a stomachache. It was a telling omen. As Felix Gallardo pulled open the bedroom curtains of his house in Guadalajara, two police lookouts from a twelve-man task force gave the signal. The agents jumped over a neighbor's wall and broke down the back door, surprising Felix Gallardo on the staircase of his two-story home. He was still in his pajamas. Pinned to the floor, he begged his captors to kill him. When they refused, he offered them...
...years. The Christian Democrats now control the mayor's office in only one of West Germany's major cities, Stuttgart. And in both West Berlin and Frankfurt, the Free Democrats failed to receive the 5% of the vote needed to gain representation in the local councils, a disturbing omen for a small swing party that seldom polls more than 10% anywhere...