Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...documentary investigating the ghost stories of a small town. The movie begins by explaining that their footage has been recovered since their disappearance a year ago. The rest of the movie shows the filmmakers at work. The movie is entirely shot in grainy video and 16mm film, often in bad light or with bad sound, through jerky, rushed shots. There's no score and no opening credits. On the one hand, this makes it plausible that the movie is no illusion. It seems to be a student documentary made on the cheap. But because the movie never tries to create...
...spend any time at all on the Internet, you probably get spam - unsolicited e-mail containing advertising and other unwanted dreck. According to a recent Gartner Group survey, 91% of people online are spammed at least once a week. Usually it's easier just to accept it, like bad weather or mosquitoes. But some people have chosen to make fighting spam their crusade, and this week they're launching a campaign against it, both on your hard drive, and in the courts...
Wall Street just remembered that to get rich, you?ve still got to sell once in a while. After watching the Dow and NASDAQ spend the past three weeks wafting in record territory, and hearing this week?s good-news, bad-news earnings reports - such as Microsoft?s, which combined Street-beating earnings with oblique forecasts of Y2K headaches - investors evidently figured Tuesday was as good a time as any. "This was profit-taking, pure and simple," says TIME Wall Street columnist Dan Kadlec of the three bears (the Dow shed 191, the Nasdaq...
...wrong. But moderation is neither inspiring nor tasty. Most of us, lacking an urgent health reason to behave (e.g., recurring shortness of breath or pains in the chest), are liberals in the practice of moderation and harbor in ourselves the latent impulses of Farouk the Indulger. We revert to bad habits when the conscience naps, especially since the buildup of cholesterol and heart blockages occurs silently, invisibly, in the dark chambers of the chest...
...habitually lapsing moderate (the steaks, the ice creams, the occasional cigar) would hardly account for two heart attacks and two multiple coronary bypasses by the time I had plateaued into middle age. Heredity is not the explanation either. Who knows? Perhaps the subterranean fissures of the Type A internalized--bad spiritual habits, no doubt. Angers, self-lacerations, demons and opacities of character...