Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle of the bagels, alas, authenticity may not matter, he says. "If they like it, that's all that counts." Inevitably, too many stores will collide in too many places, creating the now familiar shake-out. But until then, cream-cheese makers would be advised to crank up production. --Reported by Soozhana Choi/Washington, Wendy Cole/Chicago and Jenifer Mattos/New York
...spread himself too thin and win nothing at all. In New York and Pennsylvania, he doesn't stand a chance because he's simply not on the ballot. And Dole's team is doing everything it can to keep him strapped down. "The Dole folks are really trying to crank up the Governors to freeze out Lamar," says a veteran G.O.P. campaign strategist. That may not be too difficult: privately, some Governors complain Alexander is a bit too slick for his own good, and they resent his string of sweetheart deals that tend to come a Governor...
Perhaps these outbreaks of irrationality should be expected in an age in which, 70 years after the Scopes "Monkey Trial," many Fundamentalists are trying to force schools to teach the crank "science" of creationism. And what should we expect of an age in which John Mack, a Harvard professor of psychiatry, publishes a book on the abduction of humans by aliens--he is particularly fascinated with the way aliens inseminate our womenfolk--and...What? Is fired? Denied tenure? Hardly. Finds himself with a best seller, a spot on Oprah and a fistful of Rockefeller-family research money...
...monarchy's credibility erode like a sugar cube in hot tea. There was Diana, in a stunning black jacket with white blouse, pouring her heart out: conspiracy theories involving Charles's "team" trying to portray her as a loony; stale revelations about trysts with horseback riding instructors and crank calls to millionaires; and those mediocre scripted phrases: "There were three of us in the marriage; it was getting a bit crowded." Oh please. We can almost see your eyes following the teleprompter's cues...
...shambly, incidental pleasures, Mallrats gives one the impression that as Smith ages, he isn't going to get better--just more so--and that he'll crank out more low-rent, easy-on-the-ears comedies. When Brodie walks into the mall, he exclaims, "I love the smell of commerce in the morning!" The joke refers to Apocalypse Now, but the bet here is that Smith does love the odor of deals. A film studio to him is just a giant convenience store where he can showcase his bright, disposable wares...