Word: cool
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...craftsmanship and care and humility of design and artifacts from the earlier era," says Ware, who collects pop ephemera like turn-of-the-century sheet music. "[There is] this arrogant sexuality to the modern world that I find very annoying, and I guess threatening. Everything has to be cool. Everything has to be sexy and fast-paced and rock-and-roll." Daniel Clowes, creator of Eightball comics, remembers visiting a modern-art museum in Amsterdam with Ware: "After about three rooms of Damien Hirst-ish paintings, I thought he was going to start tearing the art off the walls...
...cause small fry to lose their balance and fall, which means anything from scraped knees to fractured skulls. Tuesday's report advises parents to wrap protective gear around their kids' limbs and to insist on helmets. Of course, the extra padding may not add to the all-important "cool" factor, but it could be the difference between a fall and a fatality...
Maybe that's why, ever since Bush introduced his plan late last year, public reaction has been medium to cool. Poll after poll has shown that a large tax cut is not high on Americans' lists of priorities. Bush's response to the public's reluctance has not been to back away from his idea; instead he just keeps reiterating its benefits and feasibility. "Maybe I didn't explain what I was trying to explain very well," he said in New Orleans on Thursday, before trotting out a middle-class family that would profit from his plan. "Let me start...
...like waiting to see if the groundhog spots his shadow. No matter what the outcome, it's the anticipation, the unknown, that makes everyone so nervous. This time around, investors were hoping Greenspan & Co. wouldn't see inflation's gloomy outline. Instead, they'd proclaim that their efforts to cool off what has been a red-hot economy had succeeded...
...benefit of hindsight and sort of editing things out, or if it really is there. But it seems [there is] this arrogant sexuality to the modern world that I find very annoying, and, I guess, threatening, if I'm going to be honest with myself. Everything has to be cool. Everything has to be sexy and fast-paced and rock-and-roll and I just find it kind of offensive. There seems to be a sort of dignity to the way we were creating the world a hundred years ago that I find much more comforting. It seems to have...