Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, people thought of Times Square when they thought of sex, drugs and violence. But a persistent wave of crime in New York City has succeeded in making some local churches a more efficient and proximate locale for unseemly business...
There's a new president in office, and millions of Democrats and liberals are watching him eagerly. Watching as, with a stroke of a pen, he signs the long-suffering Family Leave Bill. Watching as, with a wave of his arm, he lifts the ban on gays in the military or restores rights to abortion counseling in federally funded clinics. President Clinton is clearing out so much of the last 12 years' dirty laundry that you have to wonder what else he could do with so much individual power...
...only thing your silly ignorance will let you do to escape the momentary bind you're in: wave your hand in the general direction of the truth, tighten your shoulders vaguely and shrug, "oh, you know what I mean." Quickly, quickly, you pass the buck on to the listener, displace your responsibility for whatever nonsense you're mumbling...
...desire to unload this philanthropic instinct on the art world, he spent a few years as a Wall Street commodities trader. But even as he languished in exile, the art market changed. By 1986, it was full of new collectors ready to believe that practically anything could be the Wave of the Future. The Hoovers were hoovered up. Then came some aquarium tanks in which basketballs floated, weighed down by a solution of Epsom salts and water to neutralize their buoyancy. These rather banal objects still strike Koons' fans as veritable icons of mystery and memory. "They are . . . dead things...
...These [paintings] were meant to be here, by providence," said Lichacz. "Look at the color of the walls," she said with a sweeping wave of her hand, punctuated by her brightly painted nails...