Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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METROPOLITAN SMOKERS ARE A FORlorn lot these days. As more cities ban cigarettes in public places, smokers are altering every daily habit but the one they most crave. They take lunch at the restaurant bar because only there can they enjoy a quick stick of nicotine for dessert. They dash from their seats at the football stadium to the rest-room, missing the play of the day for the puff of the moment. Shivering in shirtsleeves outside their office complexes, they increase the risk that they will succumb not to emphysema but to chilblains...
...SKUNK ANANSIE Paranoid & Sunburnt (Epic/One Little Indian). This British quartet, one of the few hard-rock bands fronted by a black woman, boasts a scaldingly bold sound, mixing chunks of punk, bits of R. and B. and even a dash of gospel in its joyously fierce debut album...
...gets stirred up by a big story, so her nickname is Mad Nash," says deputy International editor Charles Alexander. "But I like to call her Mad Dash because she'll drop everything instantly and go anywhere in the world to report...
Although debatable, this is not a revolutionary argument. But Wattenberg has already provoked the sort of response book publishers dream of: when Clinton picked up Values Matter Most recently, he found himself moved to call the author. Their long chat prompted Wattenberg to dash off a newspaper column in which he quoted the President as acknowledging that he had "changed philosophically" during the past few years: a statement the White House now vehemently denies...
...true identities of his offspring. Erik Amblad as the Captain achieves a similarly endearing effect; his Captain seems blissfully disinterested in the immorality of the characters. He is content to do impersonations with his dildo, babble appreciatively about the relative morality of the modern age and let the ship dash itself upon the iceberg...