Word: blur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Through all of this she seems to have retained a sense of humor, a fierce pleasure in observing the world and a moral strength (she has a biting contempt for people who complain). She writes beautifully, savoring the details that pass most people by in the blur of daily life...
...weird." They find the placement tests too challenging, idiotic and numerous, and the ice-breaker events too shallow. The hi-what's-your-name-where-are-you-from-what's-y our-dorm-well-nice-to-meet-you mantra grows old very quickly, and the days become a blur of cookouts, sweaty parties and fierce scamming...
Each night Miguel will attempt the quad only once. The uninitiated observer sees only a blur of sequined tights, tucked, spinning, floating up there like a soap bubble before gravity resumes and the jumper's hands lock with the catcher. There he goes, now it's over...
...journeyed into that semi-awake, semi-asleep state and her voice dropped into a half-audible blur of indiscriminate sounds...
...problem, except that the music industry (The Establishment ! Aaaarrrgh!) has discovered the "alternative" market and the edges are starting to blur. Nirvana, an alternative band (we thought), has a number one album on the Billboard charts. Record companies have whole divisions devoted to the "alternative" sound. If there was ever a time of a truly "underground" alternative scene, it's long over...