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Word: coke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restaurant even if they have Pepsi, you ask for Coke. You associate that with being the product. When you associate with it being top hires, you just think Harvard," he says...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Buying Futures | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...Coke over Pepsi...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Buying Futures | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...Murphy says he believes that people "brand" Harvard just as he says people choose Coke over Pepsi although Pepsi wins in taste tests...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Buying Futures | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...which it has become more and more difficult to talk about things as they actually are. There's a near constant rush toward metaphorization, toward transmuting events into mediagenic terms. Oral sex isn't about sex, some pundit or other tells us, it's about honesty. Snorting coke isn't about drugs, it's about the media. Shooting up your high school class isn't about gun control, it's about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rock cuts through the b.s. Suddenly we wake up, like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, and find ourselves in a tub of goo with robots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Bette Midler testifies, "for years I never said a word that Bruce didn't charge me for." Robin Williams: "This man cracks my ass--with laughter." Nathan Lane: "He's given more great lines to celebrities than a Hollywood coke dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roastmaster General | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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