Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court of public opinion, the players lost horribly. Scoffing at the idea of free agency for $230,000 athletes, somehow the fans found it easier to relate to Detroit Owner William Clay Ford or Washington's Jack Kent Cooke (worth $900 million apiece). Stadium crowds seemed to be bouncing back, suggesting the customers might be warming to new heroes, but more than anything else, the strikers missed their paychecks. They had to wait an extra week to be reunited...
...last food poisoning incident seems to me to have been 10 years ago or perhaps more," Walcott said. "Because our menu items are prepared for a specific meal and are not carried over [to the next meal], there is, in my opinion, less of an opportunity for a food-borne illness here than there might be in a restaurant," he said...
...finds such highly publicized exhibits disturbing, arguing that they determine when particular artists are discussed. Following a recent Van Gogh exhibit, he says, "all of a sudden everyone was talking about Van Gogh. We're really being manipulated." In his opinion art should be viewed in a conscious and concentrated setting...
AMERICAN schools, in an addled misunderstanding of democratic respect for diversity of opinion, try hard to avoid such direct, coercive teaching--and democracy suffers. Schools where allegiance to the flag is taught have been the targeted with law suits...
Barrages of mass-produced sounds and images targeted to weaken consumer resistance and sway opinion have made the new literary generation knowing observers of style and class. Most share affluent backgrounds and a sense of being entitled to the best brand names, higher education, sex, drugs and psychotherapy. Their casual sophistication is worn two sizes too big. The best characters in their fiction are invariably white, bright and dangerous to know, like the autobiographical narrator of McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City and his sidekick Tad Allagash, a stripling adman and Manhattan party animal with inexhaustible supplies of Bolivian Marching...