Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first intemperate disgust at the media for pursuing the admiral even to his death, his ritual shame, his seppuku, erupted behind the question: Who cares? Who gives a damn if he wore a couple of battle decorations he should not have...
Stage 1: Anger (upon hearing the bulletin). God damn the media, anyway...
Sure, the council and many of its candidates took themselves too seriously. Campus media and the candidates, with an entertaining sense of self-importance, "falsified" the gogetter politics of Washington. But it was damn fun and a step in the right direction. --Daniel Silverberg '97, The writer is a Crimson editor...
...Damn Camden Yards, the gleaming, charming, "old-fashioned" Baltimore ball park that has turned so many cities green with envy. Damn the Jumbotrons and the food courts and the infuriatingly courteous ushers and the souvenir superstores with the Cooperstown Collection jackets. And damn us for letting ourselves be played for suckers by people who see us not as fans but as a "revenue stream...
Sharon Stone is the latest entrant in the Streepstakes; she plays a death-row inmate in Bruce Beresford's Last Dance. In vain would we tell her that the world has a surfeit of good actresses but damn few movie stars and that she is one of the rare modern avatars of the grand old radiance. Acting is easy, glamour is hard. But Stone wants more than to make sin chic. To increase her stature, she must diminish her luster. And so she has chosen the sort of caged-woman melodrama--but with a message--that, when Susan Hayward tried...