Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bennington students, because "within ten minutes of finishing either, you will be on your way up to Vermont to pull your kid out." And in Vanity Fair, James Wolcott wrote an almost scholarly piece on the chroniclers of the young and wasted, pronouncing them "too numb to feel, to cool to care...Current fiction is festooned with their razor cuts and insignia. Listen closely and the lite-FM melodies of Ann Beattie snarl into a more hostile noise...
...Floridians felt a cool breeze last week, it might have been the entire state breathing a collective sigh of relief. The legislature voted unanimously to close a legal loophole that allowed anyone to carry a gun -- "pack a piece," in the parlance of Miami Vice -- so long as it was visible...
...blade: cool way of saying oar. Also a way to refer to the painted part...
...taste is not cool. For instance, there's the running gag about a fat girl whose only "funny" attribute is being overweight. Shooting up scenes and an extremely unfunny deflowering complete the offensive picture...
...nights ago my roommate and I weren't too worried about keeping our minds cool; we simply wanted to keep our hands and feet warm. Equally perturbing, though, was that our Winthrop neighbors--no more than 30 feet cross Mill Street--had their windows open and were pretty obviously toasty warm. And friends in Eliot, Dunster and Kirkland were complaining about the excess heat in their rooms...