Word: smidgen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communicating. The Democratic National Convention promises to be the most thoroughly automated political gathering ever held, a million-dollar showcase of advanced technology, featuring such wizardry as computer terminals controlled by a touch of the screen, high-speed electronic mailboxes, computerized diagrams of hotel meeting rooms and even a smidgen of artificial intelligence. Says James Sterling, the Democrats' telecommunications director: "This is without a doubt the most high-tech convention in history...
Unlike the car, truck and bus, the bike does not spew stinky fumes and carcinogens. A bike is easy to park in a sliver of space, and of precious oil it needs only a smidgen to keep the wheels squeakless. Riders may turn rowdy, but the vehicle itself is quiet -- a blessed virtue amid the squawk-bleat- scream-grind-growl-honk-toot-wail-shr iek that is the voice of the big city...
...passed into our national vocabulary, artists from JoAnne Akalaitis to the cabal of Hollywood dignitaries behind The day After have all imagined that they could do what Kubrick couldn't: influence the course of the arms race. Fearlessly armed with the facts and logical arguments, but rarely a smidgen of dramatic or narrative strength they can call their own, the anti-nuclear advocates carry on despite 20 years of null impact on American or Soviet policy. It's ironic that until very recently, both this nation's nuclear strategists and their foes still relied on vintage 60's ideas...
...Heads put forward some experimentation. The Western beat in "Creatures of Love" and the gospel-like beginning of "Road to Nowhere" are two examples. Even a smidgen of Far Eastern jingles start off "The Lady Don't Mind." The risks they take here, however, are not nearly as daring as their extensive work with African music several years ago. No keys to the avant-garde will be issued here...
...every Broadway musical this season, "Nine" suffers from a dearth of feeling, a kind of aseptic hole in the heart. "Nine" is a case of a spectacle without a subject. This time, the clothes have no emperor. Like a shell game, this musical teases the eye without stimulating a smidgen of affectional concern. Admittedly, these are extremely pretty shells to watch: the splendiferous costumes of William Ivey Long; the 21-count 'em-21 girls, many of them leggy thoroughbreds; Scenic Designer Lawrence Miller's seductively panoramic view of Venice...