Word: destructing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comic: delightfully simple yet utterly absurd. In the hyper-violent, super-capitalistic universe of the future, a corporation called ScudCo manufactures "disposable assassins": three coins deposited in a vending machine will get you a robot designed to be the perfect killer, which will demolish your enemy and then self-destruct as soon as it's accomplished its mission (planned obsolescence, after all, is what makes consumer culture go). Our hero is a typical Scud robot assassin, bought by a middle manager who needs to get rid of a hideous mutant monster named Jeff--which, in the finest sci-fi/gross-out...
...saying about him just doesn't click." Equally disbelieving are New York fans who grew up listening to "Yesss!" and "Kick save--and a beauty." Says Frank Commrade, a truck driver for a carting company and die-hard Rangers and Knicks fan from Larchmont, N.Y.: "First the Knicks self-destruct, and now this. Say it ain't so, Marv...
Down 2-0, the team had had every reason to self destruct, to run around the field launching desperation shots as the minutes ticked by, but it didn't. Harvard stayed true to its game plan and found its winning form in time for an unlikely victory...
...acerbic CIA chief has already served as Deputy Defense Secretary; would be a good fallback if stronger candidates self-destruct (remember Bobby Ray Inman...
Moreover, the Dole campaign continues to self-destruct. Even worse than taking a tumble, which resulted in pictures of the candidate helpless on the ground, and referring to the "Brooklyn Dodgers" (who moved to Los Angeles almost 40 years ago), Dole last week let Clinton win the endorsement of the nation's largest police union virtually by default...