Word: ticking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hope Steadman, the exalted, blissful, breast-feeding mother of thirtysomething, who provided a postfeminist contrast to the "neurotic spinster ((and)) ball-busting single career woman." Or Glenn Close's character in Fatal Attraction, the crazed professional temptress -- beautiful, successful and mad as a hatter, thanks to the deafening tick of her biological clock. Or the Dress for Success models who, in Faludi's lethal description, "trip down the runway in stiletto heels, hands snug in dainty white gloves. Their briefcases swing like Easter baskets, feather light; they are, after all, empty...
...television viewer cannot see so clearly the effect of the internal wake- up calls, the biological clocks, the steady tick, tock, tick. Ye Qiaobo, just after becoming the first Chinese athlete ever to win a Winter medal, in the women's 500-m speed-skating event, got up on a podium a composed 27-year- old woman in a purple track suit who had been done out of her gold, she felt, by a competitor's error. Would she protest? "Maybe I will try" -- and the whole room held its breath -- "to set my sights for the next Olympic Games...
That voice, says Wexler, "is what makes me tick...
Brown has a well-balanced attack, but the players who make it tick are Lloyd and Savage. The senior backcourt partners have already dished out 103 assists...
...answer may lie in the wastebarrels of film history. It seems that Freejack and movies of its ilk are exactly what make Mick tick...