Word: slipperiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White, though, pulls it off, at least some of the time. Several of his essays here, for instance, tackle that slipperiest of themes, man in the machine age: one, "About Myself," employs a now-aged device ("I am married to U.S. Woman Number 067-01-9807"), but halfway through it, when he talks about his operator's license which will expire in 1943, it is clear he was the first to use this form. Cliche isn't when it's used for the first time, and the reason things become cliches (and then hackneyed cliches) is because they have...