Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next day I swang by Newbury ("Shop here, die happy") Comics on my way home from class. I circled the store twice, browsing the trendy t-shirts, the beatnik literature, the Pulp Fiction posters and, of course, the tons and tons of CDs. Rock, reggae, rap, folk, country, jazz, blues, classical, comedy, spoken word, soundtracks, compilations--yet amazingly, I couldn't find what I was looking...
...store CDs tailored to customers' specific preferences--a practice already common in the piracy-friendly Third World. The industry didn't exactly welcome the plan with open arms. In fact, the big labels howled and threatened to withhold their hottest titles. IBM and Blockbuster quietly let the idea die...
When a poor, black 13-year-old from the Bronx leaves her newborn to die, we go on about our business, but we are gripped when two affluent white teenagers do the same thing. Yes, there's race and class. But there is also our belief that it is society in its dysfunctional state that yields ruthless behavior, not society when it is working to give our kids the best of everything, including private help when things go wrong. Of course, the dark side of kids who have everything is that they cannot tolerate one blemish on their smooth lives...
...with love. She is pure emotion, naked, shameless, unmediated by discretion. These aren't attitudes of passion; this is the genuine article, take it or leave it. Even with our quibbles, we'll take it, and embrace it as tenderly as Bess does the man whose happiness she'd die for. In its pagan fervor, this is an almost religious experience...
...geography destiny? A study of New York City's black population finds that blacks who migrated to New York from the South are twice as likely to die of a HEART ATTACK as blacks born in the city. Blacks who moved from the Caribbean, however, have just half the risk of a fatal heart attack...