Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anxiety behind the phrase "family values" may derive from an intimation of such breakdown, a flicker of the instant when the moral slippery slope may swivel like a trapdoor to right angles. Americans see the inner Ik all the time these days. They glimpsed it out of the corner of the eye for a moment when an 82-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease was abandoned at the dog track in Post Falls, Idaho, last March. A cautionary scene -- and it turned into a morning talk-show joke: "It's dog-track time for you, doofus!" the host with...
...phrase sounds like the name of a discount center in the suburbs. In a sense, that is what it means -- the concept is an American warehouse of moral images, of inherited assumptions and brand-name ideals, of traditional wisdom, of pseudo memories of a golden age, of old class habits: here some of the culture's finest aspirations are on display, its handcrafted, polished virtues and a few handsome, valuable antiques. But also a lot of shoulder pads, Tic Tacs and mouthwash...
...physician, who, obliged by Connecticut law to do so, reported the claim of abuse to the police, and Allen was a candidate for questioning. Within a week he filed for custody of his three children. And early last week he publicly announced his love for Soon-Yi. In a phrase echoing his declaration about Farrow, he said Soon-Yi "has and continues to turn around my life in a wonderfully positive...
DEFINING MOMENT: A phrase few pundits have left unused this year...
...Iraqi compliance. By week's end the U.S., Britain and other allies were careering toward another showdown with Iraq. Shore leave in the Mediterranean for crew members of the aircraft carrier Saratoga was canceled, President Bush met with top defense advisers, and officials in several Western capitals huddled to phrase an ultimatum...