A period in which serious matters have been ignored while those who should have been paying attention hid from reality by sticking their heads in the sand as ostriches are imagined to do.
Примеры использования:
"After so many ostrich years, [h]e now appears to crave publicity -- there's been a Panorama and dispirited pronouncements that he should have cut Pulp Fiction."
"I was never, ever a hippie because of the whole rustic/wilderness/country aspect. do not know what I am now and I live in fear that I am retro in some way. I guess I am, secretly; I am 1978, close enough to hear the echo of my Granny laughing her ass off at Watergate every afternoon, but before those ostrich years of Reagan (for twelve republican years I shut off some part of my brain -- it was easy, I was an adolescent, and I’ve never been strong or responsible enough to handle the horror of that reality). In 1978, I was still watching everyone else with no sense of myself being watched."
"I'm pretty much over my Intimidated Ostrich years at this point, but it all came flooding back in a second and I turned instantly into a huge weenie, relegating myself to the back room where I could sort out Verizon Wireless statements into month order in peace, without the weird man looking over my shoulder while reading his golf magazine."
"In Ostrich years MTV is like an 8-track! In fruit fly years MTV is like a PlayStation 3 however."
"I was once bitten by an ostrich. Years later I tasted the gamey satisfaction of revenge by eating it's great great niece with a side of mashed potatoes."
"A quick doodle while waiting for the scanner, I drew a similar ostrich years ago but can't find the original. Crumbs."
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