Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jimmy Carter ran for President as the antithesis of everything that Nixon supposedly embodied in the American imagination. "Trust me," said Carter. "I will never lie to you." He ran as an anti-Nixon, the blue-eyed sweet guy in a cardigan. But when Carter's foreign policy foundered and the hostage crisis deepened and the gas lines grew longer, Nixon's stock rose a little. At least, many Americans said, Nixon commanded respect abroad...
Following the workouts under the white tent, pretty girls and children queued up to sit on Cooney's broad lap and have their pictures taken with the bent-nosed Santa Claus. This silly sweet scene every day galled Hilly but delighted Cooney. "Little kids are the best part of being a celebrity," he said, bouncing a squirmy set of twin babies. "What good is this doing us?" Hilly fumed. As for the pretty girls, Cooney, a bachelor, regretfully subscribes to the boxing axiom that women have ruined more men than war and pestilence. He talks daily by telephone...
...husband. Sly made the Manhattan disco scene and had a couple of well-publicized romances, with Joyce Ingalls, his Paradise Alley costar, and Actress-Singer Susan Anton. "Stallone is one of those eccentric, powerful and vulnerable males I've always adored," says Shire. "I think he was born sweet and spent most of his life repressing that. It's only recently, with Sasha's help, that he's decided to show...
...picked up the camera, turned around, and what do you think he saw? Yes, it was a beautiful rainbow, ribboning the night sky: a sign that the little boy had found the key to his dreams. And just before the rainbow disappeared-a rainbow no one else saw that sweet summer night-Steven aimed the camera heavenward and pressed a button. The little boy from suburbia had begun to tell his story...
Such words babble up in all corners of society, wherever anybody is ax-grinding, arm-twisting, backscratching, sweet-talking. Political blather leans sharply to words (peace, prosperity) whose moving powers outweigh exact meanings. Merchandising depends on adjectives (new, improved) that must be continually recharged with notions that entice people to buy. In casual conversation, emotional stuffing is lent to words by inflection and gesture: the innocent phrase, "Thanks a lot," is frequently a vehicle for heaping servings of irritation. Traffic in opinion-heavy language is universal simply because most people, as C.S. Lewis puts it, are "more anxious to express...