Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course not everyone who has the blues is depressed. Feelings of sadness, frustration and unhappiness are natural reactions to real-life problems -- a painful loss, a relationship gone sour, a conflict that won't go away. Psychiatrists refer to such reactions as "adjustment disorders," and the people who suffer from them as the "worried well." A simple rule of thumb prevails: If the symptoms gradually clear up as the problem subsides, you've probably had an ordinary adjustment disorder. If not, you may be suffering from clinical depression...
Even in more serene elections early polls often prove ephemeral, because voters' preferences are, in pollsterspeak, "lightly held." In 1988 Michael Dukakis' 17-point lead over George Bush disappeared in a twinkle. This year the public's extraordinarily sour mood makes horse-race numbers still more suspect. "In this atmosphere," says Everett Carll Ladd, director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, "polls often become a source of misinformation rather than insight into what's happening...
...sing-along smash, Achy Breaky Heart, the ladies wilt. In three months Cyrus, 30, has rocketed from nowhere (or the nearest thing: Flatwoods, Ky.) to No. 1 on the pop charts. Is this Elvis? Bruce? Actually, neither. Aside from Achy Breaky, Cyrus has only one memorable song -- the sour-grapes rouser Could've Been Me -- on his Some Gave All debut album. And even now he could use a charisma injection. But, hell, let Billy Ray enjoy his nine-days'-wonder status. It's nine days more than most people...
...fruit-juice industry dismissed last week's charges as sour grapes. "If C.S.P.I. had its way, food labels would consist of nothing but green lights, red lights, sirens and warnings," said John Cady, president of the National Food Processors Association. Apple juice is used to give fruit beverages a pleasant taste, the industry maintains; publishing actual percentages would disclose trade secrets without providing any additional nutritional information...
With his kitchen-knife physique, sour face and a hairdo resembling a road-kill toupee, Lyle Lovett looks like a serial killer in Southern Baptist preacher's garb. That must be what inspired Robert Altman to cast the singer as a spooky detective in The Player. Anatomy is destiny in modern show biz, so it doesn't hurt Lovett that he looks like his songs. He could be a death-row denizen musing about the ends of life and love...