Word: baser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening weekend alone (making it the highest-grossing Miramax debut ever)? Why the desperate need to sneak into the cinema on a stolen afternoon--only to run into everyone else in your blocking group? Why the masochistic vertigo of surrendering all your intellectual and critical powers to your baser appetite for good-looking things? Why the bashful admission that, yes, I love it, and I'm waiting for the video? She's All That May not challenge. But it undeniably satisfies...
...sales have taken off, energy-bar makers are avidly extending their brands. PowerBar has introduced PowerGel, a liquid goo for athletes who don't have time to chew. But many of the new products cater to consumers' baser instincts. Balance Bar has a new larger bar with 300 calories and more than a quarter of the saturated fat you need in a day. Even the purists at PowerBar have rolled out a better-tasting Harvest line, with twice the fat of the original. Maxwell diplomatically calls them "a recognition that people want a complete eating experience...
...angry feminists: There is nothing wrong with single-sex institutions. Men, just like women, need to themselves. We need a place to let our baser instincts have free reign, to let go of whatever exterior polish we affect to appease female sensibilities. I find it hard to believe that the educated women of this campus do not appreciate this basic sociological (some might say biological) reality...
Sounds virtuous, but opponents of the rule say the equity argument is a smoke screen for a baser motive. They point out that transplants are down dramatically in big centers as smaller regional centers have proliferated. The University of Pittsburgh, for example, did 540 liver transplants in 1991, but only 200 last year. The cost per patient can be as high as $300,000. "You're talking millions and millions of dollars lost to those big transplant centers," says Iowa surgeon Maureen Martin...
Incoming Radcliffe students find in their registration folders a letter from the "Alumni Committee on Undergraduate Comportment," which cites an alleged increase in contraceptive device sales and asks the female students to "restrain the baser instincts of the menfolk." The mimeographed letter is evidently a hoax. The Harvard Lampoon denies responsibility...