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past 15 months. And what a weasel word it is! It has become a crutch on which the indecisive writer leans.
But there is something to be said for “icon” and “arguably.” They have displaced the top vogue words of 1994. “Dysfunctional,” for example, has almost disappeared. Woody Allen’s family was dysfunctional. The royal family (or royal brood) was dysfunctional. “The public loves dysfunctional families,” said Erma Bombeck.
In Mother Jones, President Clinton is “moved by social dysfunction.” In the summer of 1992, The New Yorker carried a cartoon depicting two plumbers working on a maze of basement pipes: “We can’t tell yet if it’s a malfunction or a dysfunction.” As I recall, “dysfunctional” displaced “resonant” about a year ago. By that time “paradigm” was fading fast, and “frisson” had knocked out “paramenter.” It’s been months since anyone has sent me a parameter. I do not feel the loss. “Seamless” and “seamlessly” are not moving, but “com
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