Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culture: "...at this point in rock history, Punk Rock (while still sacred to some) is, to me, dead and gone." In 1994, Cobain made himself dead and gone, while overcoming the cliche of accident with the violence of willful destiny. In a land swelling with nihilism, perhaps Cobain's' bang highlights our whimpers--past and present...
...sharpness of the turn right after takeoff would have been more appropriate for a bumper car ride at the local fair. And when landing, the pilots set the right side of the plane down, and, then, with a loud bang, let the left side fell to the runway...
...family basement is also home to agolf-oriented laboratory of sorts, as both fatherand son run a small club-repair and constructionbusiness. But even as Body entered collegiate golfwith a bang, winning the Greater Bostons in hisfreshman year, he knew that he needed to put hislinks career at least temporarily...
...layout. Consider Zhirinovsky Beat, a semiregular Chronicles department that follows the undignified doings of the Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Like Charlie Chaplin's lampoon of Hitler in The Great Dictator, it deflates a truculent buffoon without losing sight of the fact that some windbags blow up with a bang. "Bruce is a first-rate journalist whose work has a witty bite to it," says assistant managing editor Jim Kelly. "He lets the irony and absurdity grow out of the news, instead of just imposing jokes on what happened last week." And like the Supreme Court, which last week paid unanimous...
...atavism and an encumbrance that a small planet could do without. John Stoltenberg, a radical feminist who wrote a book called The End of Manhood, divides men into misogynists and recovering misogynists. "Manhood," he writes, "is the paradigm of injustice . . . Refusing to believe in manhood is the hot big bang of human freedom." Soft-core pamphleteering. Here we see the descendants of the ancient priests of Cybele, who as part of their initiation would castrate themselves and sling their testicles into the earth mother's pine tree...