Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reports vary. Rumors abound about those who weren't actually randomized, hushed whispers about suites being far too nice, and bitter mutters of, "Well, don't you know who his parents are?" Some houses have had no noticeable effect on their populations after randomization, sophomores merging into the dining hall effortlessly. On the other hand, jokes about the decreasing size of Matherites are growing old. Some students were pleased with their houses, others were anxious for the opportunity to transfer...
This good-stuff-for-cheap mentality pervades the suburbs. In a country where getting a bargain is a matter of personal pride, stores like Price Club and Tuesday Morning abound. Only the most snobbish of shoppers are embarrassed when they see their acquaintances in Price Club's bread section, buying garlic-and-parmesan baguettes for a dinner party...
Other diva references abound. "You have to do it tougher," Pastore tells the group. "It's Tina Turner, not the Supremes...
...that shapes Seabrook's narrative. Inspired by the promise of a "virtual community" to join the Well, a legendary West Coast bulletin-board system, Seabrook learns in various hard ways that a community of digital beings can be just as constraining--and cruel--as the corporeal kind. Unwritten rules abound, and when Seabrook breaches a few, the Well's otherwise benevolent group mind turns on him in what one Well veteran calls a Chicken Peck--"where one of the flock shows a bit of blood, and a few of the other chickens (it doesn't take many...
...make gay death terrifyingly ordinary. And yes, I know that the vast majority of people with AIDS are not gay, but I so rarely get invited to their memorials or their fund raisers honoring Angela Lansbury. I am also aware that equally or more devastating cancers and famines abound, all worthy of dollars and galas; one of the more darkly satiric aspects of the AIDS crisis has been periodic outbursts of competitive suffering...