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March 20, 2005 | RSS | EMAIL | PRINT | 9 COMMENTS

I was looking at my page stats tonight and noticed a huge amount of searches for "tom wolfe catchphrase 1970's" and other combinations of those words. Now this is odd because I've only written one entry that even includes the name "Tom Wolfe". I've definitely never written anything about Tom Wolfe's catchphrases. In fact, I didn't know Tom Wolfe had catchphrases. (Is that blasphemous?)

Anyway, while browsing the stats a little more, I also noticed a disproportionately high number of referrals from Yahoo!. So I clicked on over to the ugly step-sister search engine (which, as a side note, has remained my homepage for about eight years) and searched for "tom wolfe catchphrase 1970's," only to find my site listed fifth. It's a link to my December archive and includes this summary:

December 31, 2004. New Years Best Wishes ... The holiday evolved during the 1970's, when the elder Mr ... Stewart, Al Franken and Tom Wolfe reflect on the race ... to that 'lifelong learning' catchphrase to which so many school ...
So my big question is what are all you Tom Wolfe fans looking for? Please do me a favor and clue me in using the comments. Maybe I can even help.

Thanks and best of luck finding that catchphrase you were looking for.

UPDATE: Turns out it was a New York Times crossword clue from March 18, 2005 (thanks Trubright!). So now for the big question: does anyone know the "Tome Wolfe catchphrase popularized in the 1970's?"

If you know the answer, please leave it in the comments. I will do my part and search for the answer. Also, if anyone knows how many letters it is, that would be helpful too. Thanks!

UPDATE 2: Thanks to Irene, we've gotten to the bottom of this problem. The answer is Radical Chic. Hope that helps!

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1Trubright

There's a NY Times crossword puzzle clue from March 18, 2005 that reads: Tom Wolfe catchphrase popularized in the 1970s. I think that's why you're getting those hits!

March 21, 2005

2Noah Brier

Thanks so much for the info. I think that answers the question.

March 21, 2005

3irene

The answer is "radical chic".

March 21, 2005

4Noah Brier

Thanks a bunch Irene

March 21, 2005

5fmk

it's funny, looking at the sigla mag log files over the weekend we had the same spike.

March 23, 2005

6Noah Brier

I guess it must have been a really tough question. I'm neither a Tom Wolfe fan, nor a crossword puzzle fan, so it's hard for me to say.

March 23, 2005

7Eddie Haskell

It was a tough question. The NY Times weekday crossword puzzles also show up in the St. Louis Post Dispatch and I found this puzzle, originally published last Friday, on Monday. The NYT Friday puzzles are particularly tricky and 3/18 was doubly so. I rarely give in to the temptation to google for answers but in this case I had given up. Your site came up as the top choice when googling "Tom wolfe catchphrase 1970's" today 3/23.

By the way, thanks for the answer! It led me to finishing the damn thing at long last.

-Eddie

PS: Nice blog!

March 23, 2005

8Noah Brier

Thanks Eddie, and glad I could help. Although really all I did was wonder out loud why I was getting all these strange searches. The answers came from people who stumbled across my confusion. So thanks to them.

March 23, 2005

9Duke Nuke'm

It was a clue in a Friday NY Times crossword that stumped a great number of people. I originally penciled in "Me Decade," which didn't work. The answer turned out to be "Radical chic," which took me forever to figure out.

March 24, 2005