An article in the Arts section of today's New York Times reports on an exhibit about life on the Bowery. "The museum term for this type of edgy exhibition is difficult history, a category that encompasses the historical society's earlier photographic exhibition about Southern lynchings," the Times reports.
This use of "edgy" sure looks like a violation of the New York Times's own style manual, which says of "edgy": "Use the adjective to mean tense or nervous, but avoid the faddish meaning of 'far out' or 'on the edge'; that sense gained cliche status almost overnight."
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