Word: dares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...follow Bo and Peep. A 1975 TIME article described Applewhite as having a "rare ability to impress audiences with the urgency and truth of his message." (Such was Bo and Peep's appeal that NBC aired a series pilot called The Mysterious Two--originally titled Follow Me If You Dare--about an extraterrestrial couple.) But Bo and Peep's disciples were not all sheep. One group of discontented followers rejected the cult when a promised space visit never materialized. To stem the drop in membership, Bo and Peep instituted the boot-camp phase of their movement to prepare followers...
...this millennial decade, as David Letterman was of the '80s. Letterman's withering facetiousness said that no institution was to be respected anymore--everything was up for laughs. The X-Files says there are things to believe in: the things the government suppresses and the traditional media don't dare reveal. The show is 60 Minutes for the reality-impaired; Mulder and Scully are the new Mike Wallace and Lesley Stahl...
...exploring avenues of thoughtful discussion, both students and College administration may follow in the foot-steps--or dare I say surpass--good works begun at the Kennedy School, throwing off the veil of political correctness and exposing both the good and the bad that lies beneath...
...freedom of the press is crucial, Lee added, because those in power would not dare interfere with human rights, were it possible for the truth...
Neither Dave Barry nor Erma Bombeck could get away with admitting that "someone in our family had taken to wiping his or her ass on the bath towels." Few others besides Sedaris dare to describe the sexual fantasies of quadriplegic felons. Even his more mainstream interest in describing his first gay experience is complicated by a brave look at masturbation: "Our love had the power to move beds...