Word: ed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dick Lamm presided over the dinner, he'd pull out a pen and a tiny calculator, turn the check over and begin a tally. Don't forget his background: he's not just a lawyer, he's a certified public accountant. "O.K., Ed," he'd begin, "did you have a second scotch or just...
...Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f----ing big television...Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows...Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f----ed-up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves...But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin...
Living up to its name, the Thumper Mini-Pro ($229) pounds on the back instead of rubbing it. Invented by nonpracticing chiropractor Ed Noble of Toronto, the Thumper is currently being rolled out at Sharper Image and Brookstone stores. How it works is no secret, say the experts; the device temporarily masks back pain with a more powerful sensation...
...scare people." It's the modern movie director's job to package an old idea with zippy effects so that the audience will think it's seeing something new--and be blown away. During the cold war, even the cheesiest sci-fi filmmaker, like the legendarily dyscompetent Ed Wood, had some moral admonition in mind ("He tampered in God's domain"). Now it's size that counts; sense and scruples don't. As Spielberg says, "If the '70s and '80s were the era of the What if? movie, then the '90s are the era of the What the heck! movie...
Former Justice William J. Brennan wrote in a New York Times op-ed piece that the state performs no good service to the victim of a crime by "emulating his murderer." Well, perhaps not. But I do not believe that retribution--in the case of capital crimes, a sense of individual and communal vengeance--is a vice. I will feel no remorse when I hear the bell toll for John Royster...