Word: snap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Franklin's opponents was simple culture clash. "You're dealing with people who have been in this organization a long time and remember the day I was born and might still view me as a kid compared to them," he says. His preferred wardrobe--cowboy boots, jeans, black snap-button shirt and leather jacket--could be seen as a provocation. Even after forswearing wine in 1989, he maintains that "alcohol can be good if it is used in moderation," an unusual stance in the strictly teetotal world of his father's generation of Evangelicals. And then there was that incident...
...scant two years ago, surprising people was a snap for the unknown, unheralded, alarmingly goofy-named Hootie & the Blowfish. When the band released Cracked Rear View, in 1994, it came across as something fresh and different, in large part because it didn't try to come across as anything fresh or different. Modern rock needed some new life, figuratively and literally--Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder's misunderstood-misanthrope act got tired about five seconds after Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain's suicidally depressive lyrics turned out to be all too genuine. Hootie was embraced as an alternative...
Even when he practiced a kind of documentary photography, Callahan made personal and social realities indistinguishable. In 1950 he started taking candid close-ups of pedestrians, mostly women, in downtown Chicago. He would approach them without letting his camera show, then suddenly point their way and snap. What he found each time was a look of troubled introspection, the face as an anatomy of melancholy. Their eyes are veiled. Bits of jewelry bristle around their necks and ears in defensive perimeters. Yet while all background detail has been excluded from these pictures--the head fills almost the entire frame--they...
...majority leader is said to express himself quite well in conversation with his colleagues, his specialty being what my daughters used to call the harsh snap. Around the time of the Iowa caucuses, I don't think I was the only consumer of campaign coverage who longed for the capacity to trade a few hundred hours of pundit blather for 30 seconds of what Bob Dole was saying about Steve Forbes in private...
Most of Homer's paintings are very bright; works like "Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts," "Snap the Whip," "Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)," and "Boys in the Pasture" show Homer's dexterity in using color to capture the mood of the scene. In "Boys in the Pasture," Homer's scene of children at play expresses a hope for the future, while also stirring feelings of nostalgia for the happy and innocent time before...