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Word: butte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pool and a population unwilling to accept responsibility. A few young children set fires; a few older children decide to lie down in the road for kicks. Their parents, instead of blaming either their own defective child-rearing, or their children's congenital dunderheadedness decide to blame Beavis and Butt-head and Disney...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Scaring Up A Simple Crisis | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

...views this as a horrible tragedy; the article speaks of "the waste of their $100,000 educations and the frittering away on once promising intellectual gifts." Here's how it describes one Harvard alum's abandonment of his graduate studies in mathematics at Berkeley to write for Beavis and Butt-head: "You could read the entire story of American decline in that one career move...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: The Vulgar Generation | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

...doomed? Well, there can be no question that the Beavis and Butt-head phenomenon is ubiquitous. Laugh that moronic laugh in any group and people will instantly know what you are doing--and will most likely join in. In 1992, when the "Wayne's World" movie hit its peak of popularity, it was hard to get through a conversation without using the word "not." Like Wayne and Garth, Beavis and Butt-head have become a point of cultural reference...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: The Vulgar Generation | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

...least we all watch too much TV. Television is our language, transcending all geographical and intellectual boundaries. If we can't always communicate perfectly, at least we can all laugh like morons together. For ages, great leaders of all kinds have failed to bring us together; Beavis and Butt-head have some how succeeded. That's cool...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: The Vulgar Generation | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

...should be no surprise. This university began, in the misty days of our colonial past by training ministers to spread the gospel in the wilderness. So it is only right that it should row prepare them to spread the new gospel of pop culture, with folks like Beavis and Butt-head as their animated messiahs...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: The Vulgar Generation | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

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