Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However -- some really gloomy national-shame music now, if you please -- it is also true that most of what the U.S. makes and labels as beer (gronk, honk, sound of oboists performing underwater) is fizzed up and flavorless, the worst brew in the universe. Why this should be so is puzzling. Other nations do not find it impossible to brew serious beer. The Germans and Austrians are masters, of course. Scandinavians, Dutch and French are experts. Italians see no point in beer, but what they make is drinkable. Mexicans produce good summer-weight cerveza. Canadian beer includes such hairy...
...Soviet literature, has recently been placed under "strict regime," meaning that his food rations have been reduced and his mail and visiting privileges curtailed. On the first day, police made no attempt to stop the demonstration, but onlookers argued among themselves about the merits of such a public protest. "Shame on you. You ride on our backs, and now you want us to help you leave," shouted one elderly woman...
...that computers are bad word processors. Actually, they do a much better job than the older, single-use machines. But, with so much potential, it's a shame that students don't take advantage of their computers' potential...
...years the subject smoldered in the soul of America. To speak of it, especially favorably was taboo. But recent developments show our society is ready to face the horror and shame of an era that rendered us a nation divided. No, this has nothing to do with Platoonor the Vietnam...
Disco really fizzled when Evelyn Champagne-King, whose "Shame" may be regarded as one of the greatest songs of the movement, dropped her middle name. Champagne was disco: light, fun, slightly intoxicating. The name-dropping oozed symbolism...