Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...universe's age is confirmed by more studies, something has to give. Perhaps astrophysicists don't understand stars as well as they thought -- but that's considered unlikely. An alternative idea is downright shocking: something may be wrong with the revered theory that the universe began with a Big Bang and has been expanding ever since...
...Head Start education program, have been a failure. Until we know what, if anything, works at raising intellect, say Murray and Herrnstein, let's stop trying. The Bell Curve's explosive contentions detonate under a cushion of careful shadings and academic formulations. Even so, they explode with a bang. To give credence to such ideas -- even when doing so with loud sighs of alas! -- is to resume some of the most poisonous battles of the late 1960s and '70s, when the sometimes cranky outer limits of the IQ debate were personified by Arthur Jensen, the Berkeley psychologist who stressed...
...nothing else, get a chant of "DEE-FENSE" going--the drummers bang down twice and the crowd says defense, and the two groups alternate until the next play is over...
...ceremony started with a bang as members of the official heckler core threw airplanes into the audience and the MIT improve group, "Roadkill Buffet" got a chant and a wave going...
...brisk, not too smarmy recap of the day's entertainment news, the E! cable channel's little noticed E! News Daily gives the most bang for the buck. The show last Tuesday, for example, covered everything important that its rivals did (the death of songwriter Jule Styne, Katie Couric's interview with O.J. Simpson's grown children). But it had several other newsy tidbits too, from Elizabeth Montgomery's suit for $5 million in residuals from Bewitched to a piece on the pollution problems caused by Woodstock. E! of course has plenty of publicity fluff elsewhere; it devotes whole shows...