Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...older always eye one another across a gaping chasm. Gray heads shake in perplexity, even in a week of mourning, even over the mildest expressions of teen taste. Fashion, for example. Here are these nice kids from suburban Denver, heroically documenting the tragedy for TV, and they all seem to belong to the Church of Wearing Your Cap Backward. A day later, as the teens grieve en masse, oldsters ask, "When we were kids, would we have worn sweats and jeans to a memorial service for our friends?" And of course the trench-coat killers had their own distinctive clothing...
Serbian ethnic cleansers can draw on long evolutionary memory for tribal hatred: by now it must seem that hate, like other tribal features, is carried in the genes. Suburban tribes have to hone enmities on the spot, so they require immediate inducements. The killers must be perceived as weak and ridiculous on their own before they seek group protection and justice. The group's main reason for being becomes revenge...
Network chiefs, having watched their prime-time audience share erode from 91% for the big-three networks 20 years ago to 60% shared by six of them today, seem too paralyzed to make real changes. "Networks are locked in a box like the rest of corporate America," says Norman Lear, who created All in the Family. "In TV terms that translates into 'Gimme an instant hit' at the expense of every other value, like creativity." Instead of looking beyond Burbank for people with fresh ideas, the networks return to the same talent pool over and over. As Imagine's Grazer...
...beginning was the word, but these days it doesn't seem to be enough. Hot on the news that Pat Robertson and pals are embarking on a three- year, $7 million advertising blitz for a modern translation of the Bible called The Book comes word that Johnny Cash recorded more than 400 scripture passages for a handheld electronic Bible. Makers of the Good Book have discovered niche marketing and it is good. There are Bibles for women, recovering addicts, children and Promise Keepers. There are Bibles with such names as The Rock and WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?). There...
Since last Tuesday, an army of experts has marched through our living rooms to educate us on the signals our children send before they fly off the rails. Does your child show an unusual interest in guns? Is he a bully? Does he have violent fantasies? Does your child seem sad or depressed? If so, he may be in trouble, and a parent should intervene immediately. When I hear this I think: Well, duh. And I wonder: Where were these kids' parents...