Word: letdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Year's Eve, of course, is known for disappointment, freighted with the pressure to be the wildest night of the year but often ending in ennui, regret and beer stains. Is this one simply shaping up to be a letdown on a millennial scale? Not necessarily. Party planners and business people predict that customers will start filling hotels, parties and restaurants in the next few weeks--especially if prices drop enough...
...more important, an underbooked New Year's is a letdown only by a fairly consumerist measure, one that assumes you can divine enthusiasm and millennial spirit in terms of buzz and box office, units moved and luxury suites occupied. People are not so much dismissing the event as trying to determine how to mark it in a way that's meaningful to them. So a lot of people are making low-key, local plans, like neighbors and single dads Bruce Rave and Charlie O'Dowd of Albuquerque, N.M., who are planning a minimalist block party...
...feeling of letdown everyone will experience starting Jan. 1, along with a pounding headache, nausea, sensitivity to any sound louder than a mouse cough and wishing that the world had in fact come to an end just after midnight...
...tribute to the mental toughness of the defense that there was no letdown as the Harvard turnovers frequently forced the defense to rush back onto field with only a moment's rest...
...feels that aging should now be studied as a disease, and he would love to spend his next career, he says, "unraveling the facts." But he hates to see the study of longevity being overblown by the press. "I hope the hype will not result in the same letdown as Nixon's all-out war on cancer." Even if there is a central clock, it may be harder to control than cancer...