Word: cons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seams in MTV's Beavis and Butt-head are both more and less stark. The title characters are animated figures, a pair of teenage slackers (imagine Wayne and Garth desentimentalized), but the live-action Faith No More and Aerosmith videos interlarded with Beavis and Butt-head's pro-and-con commentaries ("For a big muscular dude he sure sings like a wuss") are nothing if not cartoonish. "There are moments of self-parody on MTV," says MTV creative director Judy McGrath, "but most of them are unintentional." This may be the bravest show ever run on national television: it lampoons...
...con imagine a professor in this department using books from that canon critically to study Afrocentrism itself critically," he says. "I know some students are genuinely quite prepared to criticize naive assumptions...
...Will endures are grotesque, but the novel's direction is predictable, and all that the story must resolve is how long it takes Will to gather his meager wits and clear out. Loosely related subplots, thrown in to keep matters churning, deal with the efforts of a couple of con men to get rich in the cereal business and of Kellogg's bitter adopted son to take well-justified vengeance on the great doctor...
...con artists then allegedly asked for a $500 payment in cash as a sign of goodwill that the victim would not keep all of the money, and pressured the victim to withdraw the $500 from a bank machine immediately and surrender...
According to police reports, the con artists told victims they found a check for $4,500 on the street, then asked their victim to deposit the check and split the cash with them if it cleared...