Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Around my bar mitzvah, I realized for the first time I was gay. Or as I termed it, I had a problem. I spent the next seven years in denial trying to suppress it and to correct it. Eventually, I realized that my original notion, that I cannot be gay and Jewish, was wrong," El-Ad said...
...until the last of the two-song encore. Guitarist Dave Chalfant and Dave Nields leapt and hopped to match. The band threw out chocolates between sets, described the inspiration behind their rich lyrics and urged the audience to use their own lingo ("dolphin friendly" for over the top politically correct). The band had an effervescence in personality to match the energy of their music...
Consequently, my `politically correct' instinctual response--my disapproval of characters such as the one with a speech impediment--began to recede. For I saw that the Pudding's humor is truly all-pervasive. They make fun of everyone, for everything; and it is so "over-the-top" that it almost becomes politically correct in its political incorrectness...
...junior prom this spring. Then they piled into Loren's black Chevrolet Corsica to go for a spin. At 3:45 that afternoon, a few miles from her home in Media, Pa., Loren's car began to drift off the highway, the sort of mistake seasoned drivers make--and correct--all the time. Sixteen-year-old Loren, who had got her license just 2 1/2 months earlier, lurched back too far, lost control of the car and plowed into a tree with such force that everyone in the car was killed. The brand-new prom dresses did not go unworn...
...panelists are asked to distinguish between rock and stone. Columnist Carolyn Faye Fox says, "There are no rocks named Mick Jagger." Hard Copy's Barry Nolan quickly adds, "There are no stones older than him." The World's Tony Kahn asks, "Would you like to pass a gallrock?" The correct answer: a stone is a rock that has been treated or processed. Or as Kahn quips, "A stone is a chip off the old rock...