Word: dank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helps if this person is good-looking, too. No insecurity pierces this person's armor, not even when he or she knows that every other person in the house is trying to find every flaw. Until that one night, when he or she faces the camera, alone, in the dank basement, and confesses on national television that it has all been a masquerade, and "The Real World" has changed his or her life. This one is a real keeper...
Perhaps late into the dank night, when the Smores have congealed to the consistency of government cheese and the sleeping bag begins to feel more like a moist Baggie, certain outdoorsmen begin to wish for the unspeakable: that the call of the wild would be answered by room service...
...than ever as they cling to the last light of the day, the people of East Moriches, New York, look up from the decks of their boats and houses and see a 747 flare, break apart and go down in the sea. In a second or two, a typically dank Long Island South Shore night goes from languor to amazement to horror. Private vessels are first to rush toward the site through the Moriches Inlet, which opens to the ocean. Zodiacs from the Coast Guard station follow. Cutters come soon after. Emergency vehicles make a long, undulating necklace of light...
...descend underground and prepare for the evening's unspooling. Shortly thereafter, the audience, bubbling with anticipation, would arrive through the various connecting tunnels. On movie night, the entire population of a small hamlet would simply vanish underground. Up to 100 guerrillas and their families would cram into the dank screening chamber, taking pains not to sit on any poisonous vipers. (The moviegoers would try to ignore the rats, which were tolerated as an important V.C. food group...
...where their eccentricities drew stares (Ted Turner and Jane Fonda have a ranch nearby, not to mention the gun freaks, vegans and channelers). Out here, though, these folks are left alone. I like that. Whatever Kaczynski's crimes, if any, the fact he could live so long in his dank hut unmolested and undisturbed is evidence of rare tolerance, I think...