Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are a few disgruntled people around: the press. "Damn!" bellows a photographer. "The old pink again. I'm not staying here." The press is as much a part of the princess's life as her exercise regimen. The vivid dress that seems an inspired choice for a nasty day has in fact been photographed many times over at least two years. Has she forgotten how to play this game...
...what Bly calls "soft males," men who lacked fierceness, decisiveness and a clear sense of what being a man means. The requiem of the movement is that modern man feels an inexpressible sense of loss, but its battle cry is that boys will be boys, and that's a damn good thing...
...Oval Office, the Executive Office Building and Camp David, yet he continued to carry on crude, incoherent and ultimately incriminating conversations. As late as April 25, 1973, well after the smoking-gun conversations about stonewalling and hush money, Nixon was still congratulating himself on the secret system. "I'm damn glad we have it, aren't you?" he crowed...
Things look a bit grayer at Big Blue these days, at least judging from an internal memo leaked last week by someone within IBM. The theme of a charring corporate review delivered at an April management meeting in Armonk, N.Y., was "Everyone is too damn comfortable at a time when the business is in crisis." The critique continued: "There's no fun being a no-growth business. It's not the stockholders' fault. The problem belongs to those who manage the business." Remarkable words under any circumstances, but most remarkable considering the source: IBM chairman John Akers...
...They're students. Probably taking drugs. I'll take one too, a double. Damn kids today, probably all addicts...