Word: dated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quadrisyllable has Joycean overtones: macneilehrer -- a run-on conjuring up two-headed television journalism, emanating from Washington and New York, dispassionate, in-depth and, in the words of one contributor, "gloriously boring." The word, however, now has an expiration date: in a year PBS's influential, much honored MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour will no longer be the same. Robert MacNeil, who co-anchors the show from New York City, announced last week that he will retire in October 1995, the show's 20th anniversary, leaving Washington-based Jim Lehrer as the sole anchor. MacNeil characterized his decision as "convenient," which was typical...
...also recognized that maidenly virtue and religiously inspired guilt are tough sells these days. Under Glenn Gordon Caron's uninflected direction, there are no chapels (though a distressingly feeble Katharine Hepburn appears as the aunt), the couple consummates quickly, and the 90-day wait for their famous date atop the Empire State Building is motivated by no more than a postcoital fear of rushing into something. Not much suspense in that. Some of us religious and romantic skeptics have always thought this was a loathsomely pious and sentimental tale, but in a way we were wrong. Shorn of those qualities...
...this weekend shows Republican challenger Michael Huffington lagging by 6%, wider than a gap of 4 points earlier this month. Still, that's small consolation for Feinstein, who once led by 26 points. Analysts attribute Huffington's strength to a $17 million spending binge, twice Feinstein's expenditures to date...
...resemblance to the fifties ideal that my mother and the other women of her generation fought to get away from," Roiphe recently told an audience of 500 at the Institute of Politics. Anti-rape activists, she contends, have manipulated statistics to frighten college women with a nonexistent "epidemic" of date rape, and have encouraged them to view sexist jokes, straying hands and leers as intolerable assaults...
...whether it's one in four, or one in eight, the reality is that women are still getting raped. Dismissing widespread sexual violence as a myth is convenient, but doesn't really erase the problem. Roiphe herself smugly asserts numerous times that she was "date raped" and is none the worse for it; that may be so, but that doesn't mean it should be socially acceptable...