Word: waited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of our frustration with the World Wide Wait is, in fairness, due to page designers who make their sites too complex and image-filled to download quickly. But much of the blame goes in this case not to the message, but to the messengers...
...whatsoever to do with merit. After all, what exactly is "merit"? Being a national winner in some science, essay or music contest? Being intelligent? Having a 4.68 GPA? Scoring a perfect 1600 on the SAT? Well, I guess that's pretty meritorious, I have to admit it. But, no, wait a minute. What is "merit" really? Could "merit" possibly be one of those terms your TF would applaud you for labeling--yikes, I shudder and clench my teeth to use the faddish descriptor--"socially-constructed...
Irwin Goldstein could hardly wait for the FDA to approve Viagra. The renowned Boston University urologist is so excited about last week's approval of the first-ever impotence pill for men that he is opening a new sexual-dysfunction clinic, and will soon begin prescribing the drug--for women...
...That's not exactly the point: the makers of those shows in effect appropriate the imaginative world of the child because the youthful brain is the environment most frictionlessly sympathetic to fantasy, no questions asked. The tiresome, responsible brain of the adult breaks into the action and says, Now wait a minute...
...just bought a DVD player and can't wait to watch favorite flicks like E.T. and Gremlins, better not disconnect your dusty old VCR. Although there are nearly half a million DVD machines in U.S. homes, STEVEN SPIELBERG is keeping his entire film library--including pictures produced by his company Amblin--off the format. Some DVD boosters think Spielberg is resisting because he favors a sonics alternative made by Digital Theater Systems, a company he partly owns, which has not been embraced by major hardware manufacturers. The director's spokesman says he's merely waiting for millions more consumers...