Word: tic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even those feminists who don't necessarily embrace Paglia's world view seem to have inherited the postfeminist tic of offering up autobiography as theory. A 1995 anthology of young feminist thought, To Be Real, compiled by Rebecca Walker, is a collection of airy--sometimes even ludicrous--mini-memoirs meant to expand our understanding of female experience. She introduces the material by explaining that she first felt guilty about putting together such an introspective, apolitical book. But, Walker says, she resisted the pressure "to make a book I really wasn't all that desperate to read." An essay by Veena...
...capsule review of Purple America by Rick Moody (author of The Ice Storm, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie) would seem to condemn it as an example of this type of writing: Billie Raitcliffe has a thing for men who work with radioactivity (personality tic) and a degenerative muscular disease; her husband just left her and she asks her son to euthanize her when her illness gets too severe (societal problem; two, if you count the separation). Hex, her son, has to decide whether he can shoulder the burden of caring for his mother alone (societal problem) even...
...when he returns. Very quickly--Carey mimes perfectly the Victorian novelist's skill at making the implausible seem inevitable--Maggs comes to the attention of one of his master's dinner guests, the rising young author Tobias Oates. When Maggs, serving the wine, collapses from the pain of a tic douloureux in his cheek, Oates volunteers to relieve the servant's anguish by mesmerizing, i.e., hypnotizing, him. Maggs, a man desperate to keep secrets, is at the mercy of Oates, a man avid to exploit them...
...hope its slide stops before it moves into competition with the likes of "Tic-Tac-Dough" and "Supermarket Sweep...
Senior Henry Higdon solidified the lead--which by that time was not in doubt--on a power play with six minutes remaining in the game. Higdon's one-timer came off a tic-tac-toe play in which junior Craig Adams slid a beautiful pass across the zone to Higdon on the left post...