Word: wallow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed, seemed sometimes to wallow in, what appeared to be--often joyously, often grimly was--chaos. "Things fall apart," Yeats wrote in The Second Coming (in 1921, of course), "the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." It was the century's earliest epitaph, and is still perhaps its most powerful one. And Yeats had yet to conjure with the metaphors of modern science--the theory of relativity; the uncertainty principle; the looming figure of Freud, pseudo-scientific poet of our subjectivity--let alone with Fascism and Stalinism. Or, possibly most addling to a poet, the rise...
...prosperity of the black middle class. Tucker thinks blacks need to prepare for the day when such programs are outlawed by conservative courts or ballot initiatives such as California's Prop. 209. This is a serious difference of opinion that deserves a dignified debate by serious people, not a wallow in the mud. Surely, the mayor of a major American city and one of the country's most formidable journalists are smart enough to figure that...
...However, it is not pain itself that Zhang seems to fear, but what viewers' reactions to his films will portend for China's future. Will their disquieting force cause viewers to question their personal and societal conditions or wallow in the pain? Zhang may finally get his answer when Crazy English and Seventeen Years open to Chinese audiences later this year. Like A Lan in East Palace West Palace, Zhang will finally get to turn the table on both the State and his compatriots: "You've asked me a lot of questions. Now why don't you ask yourself...
Exit polls? Maybe. Absentee ballots are counted long after winners are announced and propositions approved. Pundits mention that absentee ballots have yet to be counted, may tip the balance, but it is unlikely. So my carefully punched-in holes wallow away. Does every vote really count...
...field, a recently-unknown career minor leaguer, Shane Spencer, has become the unlikely Pride of the Yankees following a month of Hollywood-style home run heroics. And, in pro football, the Saints and Seahawks all boast winning records while the once-mighty Redskins, Bears and Bills wallow in last place...