Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to buy a screwdriver, or a newspaper, or a cup of coffee. But all you have in your wallet are $20 bills and a bunch of credit and/or debit cards. Try using one of these for such a small purchase. Just...
...Diner (1982) is a coffee movie. Bunch of guys, hunched over bottomless cups and greasy food, stabbing out smokes in cheap foil ashtrays, bantering while the sun yawns. A coffee movie is Reservoir Dogs (1992): black suits, thin ties, some talk perhaps of virginity, of appointments, of tipping. Coffee is sallow men, indoor men, men of fluorescent-lit worlds and darker. A coffee movie is Midnight Run (1988): Odd couple on the road and on edge; crabby, dusty and tired. Small white ceramics, with a red stripe at the lip. The happy ending? DeNiro opens a coffee shop...
However, if these three actively work to spread their message and actually get their supporters into the Big Tent of the GOP (rather than just talking about it), they may actually have a hope of countering the influential-beyond-their-numbers Christian Coalition bunch...
...underlying Pacheco's letter. The kind of cultural ignorance about his own American society that leads him to talk in almost jocular terms about the white supremacist and anti-Semitic prone World Church of the Creator-a core Christian identity group-as if it were just some silly old bunch or "group of horrible people." -Martin Kilson, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government
Forget the dictates of retrochic: the typical '70s family was not the Brady Bunch. It might have been closer to the Hoods and the Carvers, neighboring clans in New Canaan, Conn., who make up one big unhappy family in The Ice Storm. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a fruitless tryst with Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while Ben's wife Elena (Joan Allen) screams silently, so as not to wake the kids, and Janey's husband Jim (Jamey Sheridan) has so little impact on his brood that when he calls out a cheery, "I'm back," his son Mikey (Elijah...