Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THERE A SHOW on television last season more passionately reviled than Saturday Night Live? Journalists devoted endless column inches to skewering SNL's puerile sketches as viewers with little else to watch tuned in compulsively to see just how low this once cherished institution could go--to marvel, for example, at how many unendurable minutes a skit about vomiting policemen could actually last. SNL was so hated it was strangely...
...Francisco State University astronomers Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler, has thrown an almost wholly speculative area of study solidly into the realm of tangible fact. Despite years of searching with the most powerful telescopes, despite decades of listening for the faint crackle of radio signals from distant civilizations, despite endless theorizing about how life might or might not arise, nobody had ever found concrete evidence to suggest that our planet, our civilization, our life-forms were anything but unique in the cosmos...
...After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire. Call it recreational primitivism. But the mind needs its rest too. So we go intellectual backpacking: We dabble in potions and auras; we give rapt attention to bearers of tales of alien abduction and Satanism in schools. "I can stand brute force," wrote Oscar Wilde, "but brute reason is quite unbearable." Ah, the relief...
...world in which a woman's economic status was dependent on the brilliance of her marriage. The Bennet girls travel in polite society, but they are not as well off as the company they are trying to keep, a point they are not allowed to forget, thanks to the endless derision of people like the snobbish Miss Bingley, played with amusing bite by Anna Chancellor...
...budget deadlock being what it is, perhaps a good brawl would be a more appropriate vehicle to settle the dispute than endless negotiations over Medicare minutiae. I could see it now. Clinton is bigger, but Gingrich is quicker on his feet. You call Don King. I'll rent the steel cage...