Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That portion of affection and generosity is being toasted with a self-congratulatory high visibility these days. The condition also beguiles with a spray of mad moonlight and a whiff of tidal air. The latest expression of the baby boomers echoes in the surfeit of blossoming tummies, tired legs and aching backs of these regiments of expectant mothers. The party may even continue into the night. Frenetic Futurist Alvin Toffler believes that only a lack of medical technology binds women to the end of fertility. He writes: "Once child bearing is broken away from its biological base, nothing more than...
...spent at coursework, the imagination and creativity both inspired and refined. But, like a mirage in the desert, Harvard--and the image it projects--becomes less and less impressive the closer one looks. Turn to Holworthy or Hollis, and you're likely to detect the sounds (and perhaps a whiff) of the 1980s, spoiling the sense of placidity. And it's doubtful that much besides taste has changed since the days when Lippmann and Reed attended classes in the Yard. Harvard loses its glory when it goes from general to specific. Not the individual students--but the path...
From such Californians, one learns that funk is fun. But no antidote has yet been found to the bite of the state's most annoying insect, the California Cute-Fly, which gathers in swarms at art schools and among the hills of Marin County. Quaintness, a whiff of sinsemilla, weaknesses of the bone structure, a pervasive reek of the petted ego-such are the main signs of this gnat's attack, coupled with the hermetic babblings which, on that coastal paradise of the half-blown mind, stand in for Imagination...
Most 1981 design was not bad. It was awful. But the few new urban places, buildings, industrial products and graphics that were good, were very, very good. The awfulness was not just a matter of bad taste. A little kitsch in dull surroundings can be as endearing as a whiff of horse manure in the city. The dismaying pollution of the cityscape, like that of the language, stems from illiterate and, worse, semiliterate pretentiousness...
...Adviser Richard Allen, the department is trying to determine whether he may have violated any laws by accepting two watches valued at $270, or by misreporting the date when he sold his consulting business. Both Donovan and Allen have survived previous inquiries into their conduct. But this time, the whiff of scandal has become so politically damaging that the Administration may cut them loose no matter what the Justice Department decides...