Word: fun
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...goer-in-Chief. But this is what passes for news in the dog days of summer - and it involves the one man involved in the presidential campaign who has excited any real interest among the media. In fact, these past few moments of vice-presidential conjecture are the most fun we've had since McCain left the race in the spring...
...Then the Dallas Morning News made fun of Gore's cowboy boots...
...economy aspires to abolish the old distinction between work and fun. Once, the idea was that you worked away grimly for the allotted hours, weeks, months; and then you went on vacation and had fun for a little while...
...businesspeople ask each other with wolfish grins: "Are you having fun at it?" They don't mean vacations but vocations: the frolicsome amusements of their work. Cell phones, computers, Palm Pilots, etc., have abolished the old seaside isolations and immunities. Work has colonized leisure. It is harder to escape from the wiring - to go truly away and consult the original mysteries...
...case, a change of geography is no longer enough; it requires an act of will, of deliberate withdrawal. Fun may be overrated, evanescent - a vacation should be, at minimum, a true, if temporary, escape. A refreshment...