Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liquid sugar onto a laundry rack with a flick of her whisk, Stewart effortlessly alternates advice ("The hot sugar can get stuck in your cats' fur. Keep them out of the room") and anecdotes ("I forgot to buy regular squares of beeswax, so I am taking a little bit of the foundation that I use in my beehive"). No matter that her audience is only a camera. In fact, that is terrific: the more eyes on Martha, the better...
Sollors adds that up through the Civil Rights movement "so many energies were tied up in simply fighting segregation" that scholars didn't really have the chance to explore the complexities of the Afro-American literary tradition. "But now that the dust from that has settled a little bit, the texts are being recuperated in a new way," he says. "That's not to say there isn't a political agenda still, but rather that different questions can now be asked...
...being in the interesting position of helping raid a company they own stock in, they will get huge returns from those holdings when the new owners sell off parts. The closing of the takeover deal earlier this month meant that RJR stock was worth $109 per share--quite a bit more than than the $56 per share it was worth on the market before the highly-publicized takeover war began, but that's the magic of buyouts...
Another of Unks' examples is Pepsi-Cola's advertising campaign in Taiwan. The slogan "Come Alive with Pepsi," was mistranslated into Chinese as "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead." Another ignorant American marketing move bit the dust...
...investigating artifice, and with it the shadow side of the American dream of reinventing lives. The one time Marlowe enters a Hollywood stage, it is from the back, and that, in a sense, is his customary position: seeing glamour from behind, inspecting illusions from the inside out, a two-bit peeper spying on the rich man's costume ball from the service entrance. His is a Hollywood filled with missing persons, bit players who are living a long way from the lights: gigolos, gold diggers and snooping old women, remote-controlled punks and "the kind of lawyers you hope...