Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, the so-called "computer chip" was introduced as a security measure; it is a device which is laced through the shoes and times each registered runner...
...inappropriate exclamation "You were as white as an angel!" In general, the women in "A Family Thing"--Aunt T., Mrs. Pilcher, Ray's and Earl's mother--are too saintly to be true, while the men are either churls (like Pilcher, Sr.) or burdened by a huge chip on the shoulder. Like balky horses, they must be forced into decent, sensible behavior by their womenfolk. "A Family Thing" would probably have been more convincing had nobility and selfishness been more evenly divided between the two sexes...
Bagel creativity is also blossoming. To standard varieties such as poppyseed, onion and raisin, please welcome nutty banana, chocolate chip and spinach herb...
...darkness, we sooner or later end up in hysteria and bloodshed. Russell, a much less antsy operative, practices a kind of Post-it Modernism, jotting quick notes on our secret lives and moving on. But make no mistake, he is a dangerous subversive, capable of coolly underflying any V chip ever likely to be invented...
...Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy went to the ramparts last month and picked up the bugle that Buchanan has been blowing in Dole's ear all along. Kennedy talked about wage stagnation and soaring corporate profits, and then he drove in the knife to Clinton's "values" crusade. "The V chip makes sense," Kennedy said, "but it is no substitute for college loans. It will not buy clothing or food. When the economy is wrong, nothing else is right...