Word: annoy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Windows 95, the latest update of a 10-year-old product that Microsoft is scheduled to release on Aug. 24. Windows 95 is Microsoft's bid to rid itself once and for all of its twin albatrosses: the legacy of dos (a primordial system that is starting to annoy even its most loyal users) and the competition from the Macintosh operating system (which continues to make Windows seem clunky by comparison...
...Those boxes always annoy me," says Johnson-Arbor, whose mother is Black and father is white. "I check everything that applies-Black, white, other...everything but [Pacific] Islander, Native [American] and Hispanic...
...explains, "was on the lam [on the run--if you knew this, disregard the translation] in '93 for two months in Arizona. It was the largest manhunt in Arizona history." In response to why he sports Horning's mug shot on his chest, he says, "I wear it to annoy people and attract random questions. I've been told that it's offensive and that it's a personal problem of mine...
...like Raster's looks. It's likely he was wandering the streets of Toontown and waving a sign saying WILL ANNOY GROWNUPS FOR FOOD until he was hired by the cable company. He begins flying around the screen, leaving a trail of glowing fairy dust that fades much too slowly for my taste...
Some of the alternative political and cultural views produced through these programs threaten Republican hegemony and especially annoy the narrowminded religious right. Streisand identified the Republicans' real reason for targeting these programs for the budget axe--a reactionary desire to return the country to the conservative cultural framework of the 1950s (the era of suburban bliss when minorities and women "knew their places...