Word: daring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rufus:"Hey buddy, whatsa matta wid your pal, de fancy pants ova dare? Whyzee limpin' funny-like...
...have been working straight through the night, and are in an adrenaline and caffeine induced daze. Despite your hellish night, Your Mac remains happy. Your Mac is always happy. It always stares at you as if has just won the lottery. You hate this, but you dare not anger it. Only one more sentence...you are so close...so very close...
...truck relief convoy late last year in southern Sudan, killing ten drivers. In a previous attack, rebels handcuffed truck drivers to their steering wheels and executed them by tossing hand grenades into the cabs. In Mozambique, where resistance fighters are at war with the Marxist government, few foreigners dare venture far from the capital of Maputo or other relatively secure areas. Some who do so never return. When relief workers reached the Indian Ocean port of Vilanculos last year, they found that a five-member East German aid team had been murdered by rebels a few miles from the town...
...absence of background or typical TV moralizing gives At Mother's Request its tabloid appeal. Quite simply, these people are too crazy to learn anything from. Frances is not merely an overdemanding mother but a near psychotic whose fevered outbursts ("How dare you mention Las Vegas in this house!") would be gag lines in any other TV show. Her "good" son Marc is fixated on movie cameras and tape recorders; Larry is convinced that nuclear war will break out before his college finals. The relationship between mother and sons has a creepy Oedipal ambiguity. Says Frances to Marc, ominously...
...right if you wish to fester in despair over homework assignments, but not in public. Complaining about work is a lethal pollutant in the Harvard atmosphere. The heinous odor seeps in every crack and crevice of the Harvard ambience, suffocating the unwitting undergraduates who dare to take enough time away from their work to breathe...