Word: duds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shoot in the air," one yelled, and the stone walls reverberated with the report of gunfire. Another policeman ripped a grenade from his shirt and threw it toward the crowd. It rolled to the gate and stopped, a dud. At the sound of the shots, two Special Forces A-Teams that were arriving to occupy the town took up battle positions and prepared to attack. Looking up from the floor where we were crouched, I could see the first soldiers readying their guns. Given the firepower of the two A-Teams, in a minute there would not be much left...
...moon. Despite scientists' sober warnings that the Great Comet Crash of 1994 might be an uneventful dud, the first chunk plowed into Jupiter's atmosphere with the force of perhaps 10 million hydrogen bombs, lofting a mushroom cloud of hot gas nearly 1,000 miles out into space and leaving a dark scar on the planet's familiar, brightly colored clouds. The assembled astronomers looked at the video screen for a second in silent disbelief -- then began cheering and toasting one another with swigs from champagne bottles. Said Hammel: "This is the kind of stuff I've been dreaming about...
Finals are a ratings dud -- a post-Michael nightmare come true
...Yabba Dabba Dud" -- New York Daily News...
Recent group shows, including that landmark dud, the 1993 Whitney Biennial, have been full of this stuff -- by Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon and others. Its tacky sub-pop imagery, its dazed passive-aggressive stance, its fixation on teenage weltschmerz, all entitle it to be seen as a mini-trend, linking up with the wider American cult of dumb popular therapeutics. In the 1980s, American neo-Expressionist artists shoved their excremental clods of paint at us with the self-evident pleasure that eight-year-olds take in dirty words. Patheticism is the conceptual version of this: no paint, just the words...