Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Noting that the U.S. until now has enjoyed a "Goldilocks economy"--not too hot, not too cold, just right--David Wyss, chief economist of Standard & Poor's DRI, the economic-consulting firm, poses this question: "Will the bears eat Goldilocks?" (As in the fairy tale, there are three bears--the Asian, Russian and Wall Street varieties.) His answer: It's a toss-up. Right now Wyss sees a fifty-fifty chance of an outright recession before the end of the year 2000. Wyss would have shifted the odds to favor recession if the Federal Reserve had continued to hold...
...movie companion. What Hyde felt was not so much personal embarrassment, say friends, as insult to his four children and his wife of 45 years, whom he still mourns since her death six years ago. Yet Hyde admitted the affair with a speed and self-effacement that set the standard for such things. The performance cemented the notion that Hyde is the best--maybe only--asset the Republicans have at the moment: a man who looks, and is, sound and fair, even as he oversees a panel whose members are not all known for those qualities...
...with dazzling results. When many of us who were first elected at the same time as he were adopting the bravado of Young Turks while trying frantically to figure out how the process worked, Tom came to public office fully prepared to govern. His accomplishments made him the standard to which all California mayors must aspire. We will miss him, I suspect, in more ways than we can now comprehend...
Jazz musicians are also beginning to grapple with the wealth of potential standards written after 1960, an off-and-on trend renewed in earnest a few years ago when vocalist Cassandra Wilson turned the Monkees' Last Train to Clarksville into a torchy, caramelized ballad nearly worthy of Billie Holiday. Herbie Hancock followed with The New Standard, an entire album of rock-era tunes in which he improvised on changes derived from the Beatles, Sade and Kurt Cobain, among others. Joshua Redman's forthcoming Timeless Tales (for Changing Times) (Warner Bros.) covers similar ground, with songs by Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder...
...music of Gershwin--a lot of that is getting so tired." He points out that when it comes to pop, his generation grew up listening not to Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole but to Stone and Michael Jackson; it's only natural that, having already explored the standard standards (i.e., their grandparents' pop), adventurous young musicians would now want to explore music they themselves once made...