Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paradise lost to a bunch of recent college grads looking (and not looking) for entry-level jobs while trying to find entry-level understanding of adulthood is a measure of something. The downsizing of American possibilities, maybe. Or the murkiness of American reality as it's refracted in sound-bite TV and a trashy commercial culture...
...coming to terms with,' he says. His 'film in progress" at the moment, "Six O'Clock News," is an "amalgam of the two approaches:" autobiography and external narrative. In it McElwee seeks to interview people he sees on the news, exploring what lies behind the "ten second news bite...
...fatal virus lives in the saliva of an infected animal. A scratch or a bite from an infected animal are the most common means of transmission, McCabe said...
...choice movement, not surprisingly, had already noticed a growing violence among its opposition, and associated it quite directly with the ascension of groups like Terry's and Scheidler's. Since the mid-1980s the choicers had been searching for a sort of statutory guard dog that might take a bite out of not only antiabortion foot soldiers but also their leaders, whom they were already calling Mob-tainted epithets such as "kingpins." When the Supreme Court last year rejected one such suggestion, an 1871 law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan, NOW turned to RICO...
...second, far more important reaction is confusion. How can someone "hurt" others with her views? Views can anger you, bother you, please you, affirm you, but I can't imagine them harming you. An opinion barks--often loudly--but it generally has no bite...