Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retaliation against the stuffy conformity of yuppie existence: in this angst-ridden world, movies have violent spurts of hardcore pornography, people commit random acts of senseless whoopass, the corporate oppressor gets his well-deserved comeuppance only after a violent "brawl"-even soap is not the innocuous cleansing agent you might think it is. Fight Club makes it very clear what the effects of yuppie angst are on the rest of the world: men beat each other up for fun, blocks of skyscrapers explode in quick succession, and innocent people...
...know exactly when I lost my mind. June 1996, just south of the border in a pueblocita they call Cancún. The agent of my transformation: a stylish devil named Tequila. My senior trip was about foam parties and shady beds, not yards of beer and wet T-shirt contests. In the end I looked more like a "popcorn crab" (the words of a best friend) than Serena Atschul. Does it matter? Maybe...
Perhaps this last example illustrates most effectively the general public strategy of the BGLTSA--like any good agent of capitalism, it seeks to market non-straightness, as if affection were a consumable good. Since coming out is prerequisite to all non-straight political action, National Coming Out Day is the most opportune moment to posture. By ostensibly contributing to a greater good--namely freedom from having to hide one's affections--all grandstanding, all obscene posters (e.g. "Have you tasted your own menstrual blood? How about starting with your partner's?"), all reductions of complex human identity to the size...
...meet single moms with money. It was just a job. This one guy locked me in a house because he thought I was a government agent...
...thrown in (which last year had sales of $1 billion and zero earnings as usual). To stay ahead of the curve, Amazon needs to build the ultimate e-commerce portal: the holy grail; the must-have home page for all online shoppers. And for that you need a shopping agent...