Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take that high-paying job "for just a couple of years, until I can get myself out of debt and save some money." You aren't really that excited about bond trading, investment banking, corporate law, consulting or whatever. But then again, who is? Besides, the money is good. Damn good...
...play about performing, a director had better have damn good performers, and undergraduate director Eric E. Hyett has only mixed success in his Kirkland House production of the show. There are few in this mainly competent cast that dazzle the way the script calls them to. But what the cast lacks in proficiency it valiantly compensates for with energy. And a cast that puts on a spirited, even merely competent production of a great work like A Chorus Line can delight audiences...
...commercial upbraids consumers: "We're tired of taking your crap! If we fold, you'll have no damn phones!" A Porsche ad promises male owners instant sex. And a United Airlines spot boasts, "Most of our passengers get there alive!" In the new Paramount film, Crazy People, the advertising copywriter who pens these lines is committed to an insane asylum. Since this is Hollywood, though, the writer, played by Dudley Moore, soon becomes the hottest property on Madison Avenue and falls in love with Daryl Hannah...
...like this," says Louisiana Senator Bennett Johnston, whose state is the nation's second largest sugarcane producer. "I see reform as a job-for- job loss to Latin America. You say I have a vested interest? You're damn right I do." Says a Bush aide: "Fact is, we need the support of Democrats like Bennett, which makes sugar the lowest of low priorities." An honest explanation. And a rotten...
...sort of like taking time out in a basketball game when the point guard starts shooting air balls. We said, "Let's just shut the damn thing down." Fortunately, we've got longer than a 20-second time-out. We're going back to square one, and we're gonna get it right. And if we can't operate that thing right, we won't operate it at all. You can carry all of this further, away from Exxon, and look at the whole industry's problems. In 1989 there were 368 spills just in New York harbor...