Word: twits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...London-born, Oxford-educated Grant believes his rise, and hence his fall, was media generated. "This extraordinary Hugh Grant creation comes into existence and becomes more and more bizarrely different to me," he says. "It's this bungling, floppy-haired, upper-class twit--and I really don't think that bears a resemblance to me, especially not with my new hair grease." He runs his fingers through his hair for about the 80th time. "In the end all you can do is have a laugh...
...sooo pretentious. He was so, so pretentious. That twit...
Tuesday, April 14 From Meg To: Tom I had a love affair with the word "twit" once. This lasted for years, long before I knew anyone that I know now. But the memory of the love lingers and in times of quiet if I really concentrate I can conjure up those feelings again. I've noticed you have a deep affection for the word "hip." You say it pretty often. I get the feeling that you secretly mean "hep"--something about the way you use the word belies a kind of nostalgia for hepness. Probably because you use the word...
...care less about Clinton's liaisons. It's not a matter of national importance, and it's none of our business. Investigators such as Ken Starr make McCarthyism look like child's play. It's frightening to see how our government is in peril because of a twentysomething twit. We are heading down a dangerous road with these investigations, and I hope our representatives realize that everyone can be subjected to this invasive process. ANNE M. CORE Sonoma, Calif...
...moral of this funny and acerbic family novel is, Don't give your clever eight-year-old anything to write about. Do not twit, tease, appall, amuse, behave weirdly in the presence of, or otherwise give fertile novelistic material to, the sort of shrewd moppet who may someday find a publisher...