Word: bested
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ostentation of the 1980s vanished; hello, '90s humility. Good intentions became fashionable once more -- even marketable. Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch ice cream was a best seller...
...There is no rose without thorns. Society has shown patience over the painful but necessary economic reforms. But it is beginning to get impatient. Unfortunately, that is occurring at a time when politically things are not the best. All kinds of demons are appearing -- nationalism, anti-Semitism and populism. I understand this is a time of transition. But lifting the lid from a pot where a new dish is being cooked may not be a good idea...
...idea of bestness, however, like a list itself, is an illusion. There is no "best." Bestness is a way of making something subjective appear objective. And best lists are a collection of the biases, or at least the interests, of those who make them. These lists incite a certain introspection too. For example, some of the Values That Made a Resurgence This Year...
...last is probably best, but it can only be temporary. Decades don't really become themselves until about their middle. The '50s died with J.F.K.'s assassination in 1963; the Woodstock Generation did not flower until 1969; Tom Wolfe dubbed the '70s the Me decade...