Word: smiley
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sucked 2day.” Overall, I have to agree with the magazine’s message. There’s something wrong when “talking to friends” means staring at your computer screen and typing, while not gesturing or making any noise. An online smiley face is not a facial expression, an exclamation point is not a tone of voice, and sitting in front of your computer screen for four hours is not the same as leaving your dorm and talking to real people that are really standing right there beside...
While Summers said he regrets what he called a miscommunication, West in the spring accepted a professorship at Princeton. He told National Public Radio’s Tavis Smiley last year that though he had not invoked racism as a cause, it seemed plausible...
...been lost, head down the road in our gas-guzzling cars and not mind if there's a checkpoint along the way. The Fourth of July fireworks in Omaha, Neb., this summer culminated first in a proud, fiery, red-white-and-blue U.S.A., then in rockets that formed smiley faces, then peace symbols. Which mood best fits the moment? Berkeley, Calif., the antiwar town, is busy promulgating laws that would ban coffee that's not environmentally friendly. The most popular TV show for the year was Friends--whose Manhattan-based characters, notes Chicago Tribune TV critic Steve Johnson, "never seemed...
...scenery chewing (with a chainsaw voice that is now painful to hear) and the familiar gags about uptight parents and butch gym teachers, Hairspray starts to lose its fizz. Making fun of the '50s and '60s has become so passe that this cartoon version gets old pretty fast. The smiley social commentary--Tracy meets the school's black kids in detention and discovers that they have rhythm--only makes the show's facetiousness more glaring. "Why do they have to be so mean?" Tracy cries, lamenting that she's not more popular. "I'm teasing my hair as high...
Turning 60 is darned awkward in America. We glorify carefree youth and feel sheepish if our abdomen is not hard enough to crack walnuts on and our heart is not warm and smiley. Geezers and geezerettes go around in juvenile clothes, shorts and flip-flops and jokey T shirts (my goal is to live forever. so far, so good). Embarrassing. A man my age should not aim for boyishness. He should wear an old tweed jacket and wool trousers and a silk vest with a great belly under it and have wild eyebrows the size of rats and carry...