Word: bleachings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Utero: inside the womb; before birth. The title is a misnomer. Nirvana has been reborn. Its 1991 album Nevermind was a great leap forward (after Bleach, in 1989), selling more than 4 million copies. Song after song started off with gorgeous guitar hooks, as in the anxious chords that kicked off Smells Like Teen Spirit, or the bouncy bass-guitar strumming that launched Lithium. Its punk-inspired, we-couldn't-care-less ethos seemed to reflect the restless apathy some young people felt toward their times. "Oh well, whatever, nevermind," Cobain sang on Teen Spirit. The strength of Nevermind...
Every school day, 6,250 teachers are threatened with injury and 260 are actually assaulted. Just before Christmas a fifth-grade boy arrived at his school in Chicago one morning toting a concoction of household cleaners, including bleach, and poured it into his teacher's coffee. The teacher did not drink the brew, and the boy's classmates turned him in. Last week an eighth- grader in Washington shot a school guard in the stomach after he broke up a fight between rival gangs...
...wired. Near an outside corner of the school is "the penthouse," where at night, under a mural of the U.S. flag and the words WE WANT A DRUG-FREE AMERICA, the crackhead prostitutes of Alabama Avenue sell themselves for $2 or $3. Every morning the school custodians splash bleach against the doorways to wash away the stench of urine. Behind the building are the projects -- public housing and empty lots. On the playground, thieves have carried off whatever of the jungle gym is not bolted to the ground...
...plays all six roles, ranging from the piggy schoolboy Miggy to bone-dumb Desert Storm veteran Crazy Willie to their ditsy mother Gladyz, a rare drag part shaped with candor rather than cant. He also depicts a surgically handicapped brother who has been shunted away to an institution; a bleach-blond brother in deep denial about everything from his origins to his sexuality; and the clan patriarch, feared by all the others as an epic bully but visible in the final sequence as just a hollow never-was clinging to what's left of his machismo...
According to opponents of the gun, a regular water gun attack can be shrugged off, but a trigger-happy individual is not likely to be so philosophical about being drenched by a forceful blast from a Super Soaker. The greater volume of the Super Soaker also makes a bleach attack more dangerous...