Word: commital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...give him the opportunity, he can't commit the crime," McNamara said...
...finds escape from his micromanaged world only when he is pounding someone else to a pulp with his bare hands. Everything is frenetic, violent, and rough-cut in retaliation against the stuffy conformity of yuppie existence: in this angst-ridden world, movies have violent spurts of hardcore pornography, people commit random acts of senseless whoopass, the corporate oppressor gets his well-deserved comeuppance only after a violent "brawl"-even soap is not the innocuous cleansing agent you might think it is. Fight Club makes it very clear what the effects of yuppie angst are on the rest of the world...
...finds escape from his micromanaged world only when he is pounding someone else to a pulp with his bare hands. Everything is frenetic, violent, and rough-cut in retaliation against the stuffy conformity of yuppie existence: in this angst-ridden world, movies have violent spurts of hardcore pornography, people commit random acts of senseless whoopass, the corporate oppressor gets his well-deserved comeuppance only after a violent "brawl"-even soap is not the innocuous cleansing agent you might think it is. Fight Club makes it very clear what the effects of yuppie angst are on the rest of the world...
...Nike just released the location of some factories, and that's what we're trying to do at the moment--get the administration to commit to at least a deadline [for full disclosure]," said PSLM member Erik A. Beach...
...still learning to share. Asked why such a private man would commit himself to public service, he at first replies with a terse, "My mother was always helping other people; that was a theme in the house," but becomes more expansive. "I always felt, you know, I was taller, bigger; I always wanted to help the smaller...