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Word: barring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frames of nudity into family films at random movie theaters, and, of course, starts a Fight Club with Norton. It happens in a matter of seconds. He asks Norton to hit him as hard as he can and--bam!--shirtless yuppies are pounding each other to bloody shreds in bar basements all over the city...

Author: By By SOMAN S. chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fight Club | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...delightfully disaffected, but did anyone really care about Last Days of Disco?), Smith began a series of post-yuppie angst-noir with 1994's Clerks, a grimly hilarious movie that combined Seinfeld's inane blabber and outlandishly tragicomic situations with more angst than you could scrub out with a bar of Fight Club's Paper Street soap. After that came Mallrats and Chasing Amy, more dismally delightful chronicles of the post-yuppie malaise, all starring the director (in a requisite self-referential flourish) as the omnipresent Silent Bob. Not content with Stillman's trilogy concept, Smith has spawned an entire...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: hush, yuppies: would you like some whine with your cheese? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Waiting to go on at the hotel, in an oak-paneled room equipped with bar and pool table, the Kroks relax and practice some of their music. Without soloist, they revealed the bare and mindless ba-ba ba-ba's that are the backbone ("block" is the official term) of college a capella. One wonders how even the thrill of the bar (it was nice, to be sure), the gratis filet mignon and the reliable applause could keep them singing this stuff for a dozen hours every week. Although the stirring ballad "Loch Lomond" is referred to simply as "Loch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Behind the Curtain with the Kroks | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...reasoning behind this ban, says Casablanca management, stems from the fact that the Long Island is "very potent and very difficult to pour out correctly during a hectic weekend night." Frazzled bar tenders found themselves pouring disproportionate amounts of the drink's four clear alcohols, thus creating a liability for the restaurant/bar...

Author: By A.b. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Warning: Potent Potables | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) will no longer be able to throw cast parties with alcohol at the building and the policy may affect bar sales during shows...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Graduate Board Bans Alcohol From Club | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

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