Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...winter in Cambridge, but the glass walls of the Science Center's Machine Room #1 sustain a jungle: mice hang from swinging cables, keyboards perch on walls and wires droop down from every crack and crevice like banyon sprouts. This is Harvard's biggest computer--a seemingly haphazard assemblage of mismatched computer parts that actually serves (well, most of the time) to facilitate Harvard networking. Mecca for computer geeks and e-mail junkies alike, here sit the guts and glory of our modern net-crazed campus...
Second, it was losing ground in the public relations war on drugs in the US, its most lucrative market. Apparently, its "Crack, It Does A Body Good" campaign was failing miserably in competition with the ruthless dairy racket...
...those who need to spark some action ina relationship, WordsWorth Gifts is selling "Lust:A Box of Devious Delights." For $15 you too cangive your love goodies like tattoos, fireballcandies, smokecrackers and passion gum. "Everybodygets such a crack out of it," says Wordsworthemployee Liz Robbins...
...Beastie Boys hollering, "You gotta fight for your right--to party!" and Public Enemy saying, "Don't believe the hype," and Hammer's harem-style balloon pants. Then gangsta rap: N.W.A. rapping "F____ tha police"; Snoop drawling "187 on an undercover cop"; and Tupac crying, "Even as a crack fiend, mama/ You always was a black queen, mama." Then Mary J. Blige singing hip-hop soul; Guru and Digable Planets mixing rap with bebop; the Fugees "Killing me softly with his song"; Puffy mourning Biggie...
...Committee didn't even hold hearings on the bill that created the current minimums, which coasted to victory just in time for the 1986 midterm elections. Congress and the President last year added a new mandatory minimum to the books: five years for 5 g of crystal meth, the crack of the '90s. Mandatory minimums remain political beasts, and it would probably take Nixon-goes-to-China leadership from a Republican to turn public opinion against them. Either that or more Jean Valjeans serving 10-year sentences for stealing steaks...