Word: barfing
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...literary world toward those of science, business, medicine and North American slang. In fact, a partial listing of what the language has been up to lately is enough to inspire depression: brain-dead, nose job, right-to-die, acid rain, crack, heat-seeker, asset stripping, greenmail, petro-currency, barf, drunk tank. There is not much here that would inspire Keats to write...
...Ringwald and Writer- Producer-Director John Hughes showed teenagers that rose-tinted light. Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985) and this spring's hit Pretty in Pink succeed because they are about the kids who go see them--not the locker-room sadists, lubricious cheerleaders and barons of barf who populate the Porky's films, but teendom's silent majority of average, middle-class suburban kids...
...restraint. We did not knowingly once spelt out the F word in four years of intercollegiate performance. Phallic symbols did not appear with regularity or rigidity (due mainly to the Brand's inability to perform any evolution with the requisite precision). Thus the instant reports of "puke" [I believe "barf" was once the word of choice] and commentary on Flight 007 or Marines in Lebanon hardly offend our generation...
...dues go to support such House functions as the traditional Halloween dance, the annual Christmas barf, and the lavish spring fete, all of which have previously been funded by House money, which is at the House master's discretion. But House Committee members said Alan E. Heimert'49. master of Eliot House, had announced this year that the funds available in him would not cover dusts...
...American HAYWOOD MILLER. Pink is at Harvard Business School. First is at Harvard Medical School, and Miller is at the University of Maryland's Law and Business Schools... The men's lacrosse team has some fascinating nicknames for its players. Some of the most interesting ones are "Bart and Barf" and "Lunch and Lurch" for a well-known freshman duo. "Barney," "Dirt Man," and "Five-Oh" Ask them...