Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it happens every fin de siecle, but lately fashion seems to slide further and further from reality. Most women I know have two kinds of clothes: work clothes and play clothes, in evening and weekend varieties. If women are not tending children at home, the clothes for work outnumber all the rest. So why is it that most designers of any fame produce garments intended for some weird fantasy life? I'm looking at a crotch-length strapless tweed dress topped by a blazer. Even in the permissive world of journalism, where am I going to wear this number...
...script, by New York playwrights and musicians, is not brilliant, but more than entertaining. Lyrics such as "Together we're better than so-so/Each of us is a virtuoso" will not likely be mistaken for Cole Porter. But the writing is slick and witty enough to slide even the silliest rhyme right past us. The music plays lightly with American music genres--pop, honky-tonk, blues--but stays mostly within the Broadway tradition. It's not memorable, but it is tuneful...
...that the economy has begun to slide, meaning that you're finally right, don't you feel like gloating...
...Japan the epic slide of the Tokyo stock market began with fear of rising interest rates at home, and has been accelerated by rocketing oil prices abroad. Tokyo's Nikkei index has fallen from its peak of 38,915 last December to a closing price of 22,828 last week. "This has probably been the largest bear market in any country since World War II," says Peter Tasker, head of research at Kleinwort Benson International in Tokyo. In a fleeting burst of euphoria, the index zoomed a record 13% last Tuesday, but much of the gain was the result...
...They just have to pick themselves up off of the floor and play," Lem said. "We can't deal in should'ves, could'ves and would'ves. We have to get our act together or we'll be in for one hell of a slide...