Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asia, battered Japan is back from the brink of disaster. After little growth in 1995, it last year recorded 3% growth, the fastest among the big industrial economies. Meanwhile, China, its expansion having run amuck two years ago, has managed to pull off a "soft landing" by cutting back inflation without a recession...
...selections even exhibits distinct elements of post-modernism. If Pirandello's play Six Characters in Search of An Author is meta-theater, then "Duck Amuck" is the first meta-cartoon. Daffy is denied scenery, erased, and put through all sorts of animated torture until he demands to know "who is responsible for this!" The perpetrator turns out to be Bugs Bunny, who sits at the animator's table and says to the audience, "Ain't I a stinker...
...substitute for conviction. America loves an Odd Couple, if their most profound disagreement is over how often to vacuum: twice a day or never. But Bob Dole and Jack Kemp are no Felix and Oscar. They differ on fundamental matters like immigration and affirmative action. Big-tentism run amuck, the photo-op vice presidency played well at the convention. By October it was clear the marriage could not be saved, even for the sake of California's 54 electoral votes. Never wed someone with whom you already have irreconcilable differences...
...country at large, has never had many admirers in the government. Until now, however, the predominant view among people like presidential chief of staff Anatoli Chubais has been that Lebed should be kept inside the tent, where he can be at least partly controlled, rather than allowed to run amuck in the world outside. Now the Kremlin has decided that Lebed is more dangerous inside than out. Chubais and others seem to be basing their conclusion on their own grim analysis of what lies ahead for Russia in the months to come. They fear that Yeltsin's health...
...listeners to call in and deplore this latest p.c. outrage. Kathie Lee Gifford announced, "We've gone too far with this now when we can't let a child be a child." Author Camille Paglia, quoted in USA Today, described the incident as an example of "archfeminist ideology gone amuck...