Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teen-dream prose of a suburban hell raiser with rock-solid numbers. He shows us kids who attended high school for only three days and schools that have never sent a single student to college. He explains how to hotwire a Suzuki 750 motorbike and how to sell fake acid on the streets. Yet all these fancy maneuvers are underscored by some sobering statistics. The average Japanese watches nearly an hour more of television a day than an American. Approximately 14,000 adult videos are made every year in Japan (in the U.S. the figure is 2,500). And between...
...does this mean that a dinosaur assembly plant is on the way? Don't hold your breath. The sections of DNA that Woodward collected are much too short for any practical use. The full complement of genes needed to create an organism contains billions of nucleic acid pairs. Woodward found 174 pairs, too few to be certain what animal they came from. "The pieces are so short that you can't say they are like one thing or another," says Ward Wheeler, a molecular biologist at the American Museum of Natural History. "It could be a turtle or a mammal...
Known for his acid sense of humor, Armey has used his seat in the House as a duck blind from which to take potshots at the Administration. His weapon of choice is the rhetorical blunderbuss. The Clinton presidency is not merely flawed; it is a "train wreck." The health plan was not simply misguided; it amounted to a "Dr. Kevorkian prescription." And the Congressional Budget Office is not just a poor source of economic data; basing conclusions on its figures is "like relying on the Flintstones for an understanding of the Stone...
Three weeks on the streets and Beavis is slipping fast. On a Wednesday, another homeless teenager rapes Rainbow, who is one-month pregnant with Beavis' child. On Thursday Rainbow breaks up with Beavis. On Friday she takes two hits of acid. That evening she miscarries in an abandoned building. By Saturday Beavis is self-destructing again. "I did acid for the first time, plus a ton of orange juice and some vitamins because I really wanted to fry and have my eyes and hearing be more powerful. Then I huffed on rubber cement for three hours...
Green (her street name) is tripping again. The 16-year-old girl took two hits of acid at 3:30 p.m., and now, two hours later, she can't stop laughing. She sits on the floor of a barren room in a Hollywood squat, giggling and staring at the flicker of a small candle. Her boyfriend, Troll, a 23-year-old from Dallas who has been homeless since he was 17, lies on the floor asleep. They met during a food fight at a local youth center. "I need a beer," she says. "Does anybody have some beer...