Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...episodic splendors? The end of a century -- and even more, the end of a millennium -- brings anxiety with it: the unavoidable doubts and mannerisms of the fin de siecle, when every kind of stylistic bubble rises to the cultural surface, swells and bursts with a soft plop and a whiff, while marsh lights flicker and the cultural promoters croak their Aristophanic chorus. The SoHo Tar Pits: heaven for the market, purgatory (or limbo, anyway) for judgment...
...whiff of trouble was all it took to ignite the fears of Maryland's depositors. Press reports about management improprieties at Baltimore's Old Court Savings & Loan sent customers scurrying to withdraw deposits. The panic spread to other thrifts because many of the state's institutions, as those in Ohio once did, rely for deposit protection on a private insurance fund rather than federal agencies. Maryland depositors feared that their $286 million fund, the Maryland Savings-Share Insurance Corp., would be exhausted by a major run on the $7.2 billion in deposits that it guarantees...
Perhaps the most surprising development was a whiff of rebellion within the Conservative Party. An informal group calling itself Conservative Center Forward was launched by about 30 moderate Tory M.P.s, with former Foreign Secretary Francis Pym, 63, as its leader. In calling for measures to ease unemployment and bolster industry through greater investment by the government in the public sector, Pym declared, "This Conservative government has been giving round after round of ammunition to its political opponents. It stands in danger of being sunk by its own shells." Though Pym praised the Prime Minister for her "courage and determination...
...Golub's figures seems justified and necessary. Only by monumentalizing their documentary content could he give it the kind of fixity and silence it needed, and only that way could he achieve his peculiar balance between the sacrificial and the banal and so get rid of the sour whiff of pornography that attends images of extreme violence...
...refreshingly avoided any whiff of pre-broadcast self-righteousness. NBC and actual returns be damned: at 8 p.m. EST, CBS declared Reagan the winner. ABC followed suit at 8:13; NBC at 8:31. Phew. All that holding back...