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In the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal, Thomas Wolfe’s fictional Gant family was dysfunctional long ago. Time magazine identifies Woody Allen and Mia Farrow as parents of “America’s most dysfunctional nonfamily."
Such is the surge of this linguistic wave that it has reached the courts of law. In Midland, Mich., a newly married couple has sued the hotel in which they spent their wedding night. A bellman unexpectedly entered. Now their sex life is dysfunctional. Or so their lawyer says.
Gov. Ann Richards gripes about things dysfunctional in Texas. President Clinton finds parts of the economy dysfuntional. On the comic pages, Shoe complains that he is the victim of a dysfunctional wastebasket. A cartoon in The New Yorker depicts a woman talking to her psychoanalyst. Her problem is that she comes from a dysfuntional planet.
The marketplace of language is subject to the same faddish forces that affect the tidal pulls of our culture. I look back over a long life that has known mah-jongg and Monopoly, yo-yos and hula hoops, pet rocks, jacks, the sack, and Cabbage Patch dolls.
These words-of-the-year have something in common with the most enduring cliches: bottom line, run
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