Word: priapic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization, the bureaucrats may not have accomplished all that much last week. The chaos that surrounded them did. In this moment of triumphant capitalism, of planetary cash flows and a priapic Dow, all the second thoughts and outright furies about the global economy collected on the streets of downtown Seattle and crashed through the windows of NikeTown. After two days of uproar scented with tear gas and pepper spray, Americans may never again think the same way about free trade and what it costs...
...novel, the candidate, Clinton/Stanton, is priapic beyond even the wildest imaginings of the American Spectator. Clinton bashers will treasure the author's rendition of how Susan Stanton (Hillary) reacts to the news that Cashmere McLeod (Gennifer Flowers) had her husband on tape: "Susan hauled off and slapped him right across the face. It was a perfect shot, a resonant splat--God, she was even good at that...
...piece are a crippling obstacle. They aren't even consistent. For if Mike, the much maligned cop (Michael Ness), is a repressed homosexual who finally realizes his true nature in the quake's aftermath, shouldn't that make him a Good Guy? Is David (Jesse Means II), the priapic minister, really a symbol of black male virility or a sexual predator? Is Dewain (Harold Perrineau Jr.), the gang leader who is arrested for stealing two bottles of beer, an avatar of resistance or merely a common thief...
...circle. It's easy to forget that as recently as 1948, Norman Mailer was still using the word fug in his novels. There may have been a sexual revolution - at least for those college-educated whites who came of age with John Updike's swinging Couples, Philip Roth's priapic Portnoy and Jong's Fear of Flying - but the revolution turned out to have a beginning, a middle and an end. "From the time of the Pill to Rock Hudson's death, people had a sense of freedom," says Judith Krantz, author of Scruples. "That's gone...
...does this, ingeniously, by embracing two stereotypes about gay men. One is that they truly love sex -- which gives the AIDS tragedy an ironic cruelness. To stay alive, Jeffrey renounces sex, only to discover that by cutting himself off from his priapic needs, he has cut himself off from life. "Giving up sex is absolutely justifiable these days," Rudnick says, "but it's also a terrible idea. I think it's a universal truth that human contact is an absolute necessity for all people. Whatever it takes, whether it's sex, or a hug, or a touch, it's critical...