Word: craps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Montreal or Los Angeles cooped up in a row of hot seats given little to watch but an occasional dash or 10,000 meter walking race. Kahn's solution to all this highly sanctioned monotony is to keep an alert eye which is ready to wade through the crap and focus on the human quirks and foibles pervading the Games. In a piece on the 1984 Summer Games in L.A., for example, he directs our attention to an Olympic cookbook and team handball player Mary Phyl's favorite recipe...
Clinton's overarching problem is "how much crap can he take," says the Governor's New Hampshire campaign director, Mitchell Schwartz. This is especially so in the South, Clinton's area of greatest strength, where draft dodging is a major no-no. In a long political campaign, Schwartz concedes, credibility questions tarnish a candidate geometrically. "It's not just Flowers and the draft -- one and one equaling two," says Schwartz. It's the potential for a snowball effect that causes voters to consider alternative contenders without even bothering to come to grips with their doubts about Clinton. Death...
...meant that BSA endorsed Jeffries' reported racism; the young man said no, it did not, and added that he was pretty skeptical anyway about those reports--coming as they did from the "white media." This distrust for the "white media" struck me as absurd--was he just saying this crap so he could get on TV? But after seeing some distortions of Jeffries' speech, I can see why some members of the Black community might develop distrust for media coverage of Jeffries...
...your anti-thesis. Pleasure, instead of being pleasure, is the avoidance of pain. Avoidance of thesis equals avoidance of pain, so all anti-thesis, most of which consists of boring and unpleasant tasks for other classes, seems good. Anti-thesis is, of course, not good. It is the same crap that you would do if you would do if you were not doing your thesis; "It" is just so evil that anything looks good in comparison...
Smaller papers have also been struggling to halt invasion of privacy. At the Wichita Eagle, editor Merritt decided in 1990 to change coverage to compel gubernatorial candidates to speak to the issues and "get off the crap sound- bite kind of campaigns." The paper polled a thousand readers and nonreaders before and after the campaign and concluded that readers had greatly enhanced understanding of issues while nonreaders did not. Says Merritt: "We are convinced that the appetite is out there for the kind of journalism all of us would like to do on campaigns. If a candidate is running around...