Word: rue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black aftermath. Both stories place an established couple in a charged, awkward confrontation with another couple -- a Carver specialty. He is 50 now, and considered a hot writer; 25 years after he began fashioning these tough, unliterary works, they are being picked up eagerly as emblems of late-'80s rue...
...distance. He was a primitive again. As the U.S. boxing team trooped through the airport after the trials, a woman mistakenly directed her good wishes to the alternate, Tyson. "She must mean good luck on the flight," said the superheavyweight Tyrell Biggs, a future Tyson opponent who would rue his joke...
...ambitions were Wagnerian. Gauguin thought in terms of large didactic and decorative cycles. He dreamed of making a "total" work of art subsuming architecture, painting and sculpture -- hence the "Studio of the South Seas" that he set up in rue Vercingetorix in Paris after he got back from his first Pacific sojourn in 1893, and the "House of Pleasure," with its lewd carvings and mottoes, that he built in the Marquesas. Tahitian myth was as literal a gift from the gods to him as Valhalla had been to Wagner. Gauguin was no anthropologist but a romantic looking for pity...
...importance as positions on arms control and the deficit, Simon has made good use of his off-beat image, which he advances as evidence of authenticity and personal integrity. After the scandals on Wall Street and in the White House, many voters, especially the legions of Democrats who now rue the day they voted for Reagan, are looking not for the most attractive and articulate candidate but rather for the candidate whom they perceive as the most trustworthy, the most genuine. That's where Paul Simon comes in, or would like you to think he does...
...generous, hopeful time, produced terrible urban policy and dispiriting architecture, while in the '80s, a gilded, ungenerous age, the nation is saving buildings and repairing cities. An uncomfortable irony, but preservation is a conservative movement. Thus it carries with it a whiff of complacency and rue...