Word: exhaustion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...engine exhaust deposits nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, where they can chemically react with and deplete ozone...
...panelist in last night's ethnic studies teach-in said students need to "exhaust" the administration with activism in order to get a department in the subject...
They also know, however, that the facts of race don't exhaust anybody's human complexity. And that seems to be the enviable privilege of the new black artists -- today's Post-Mod Squad. In its openness, its variety, its playfulness with forms, its refusal to follow preordained ideological line, its sustained engagements with the black artistic past, today's artistic upwelling is nourished by the black cultural milieu, but isn't confined...
...that. Two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. His red pickup truck was parked near a small river where he used to play as a child; a green garden hose attached to the vehicle's exhaust funneled the fumes inside. "I'm really, really sorry," he explained in a note left on the passenger seat beneath a knapsack. "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist...
...pickup truck against a blue gum tree at the Field and Study Center. He had played there often as a little boy. The Sandton Bird Club was having its monthly meeting there, but nobody saw Carter as he used silver gaffer tape to attach a garden hose to the exhaust pipe and run it to the passenger-side window. Wearing unwashed Lee jeans and an Esquire T shirt, he got in and switched on the engine. Then he put music on his Walkman and lay over on his side, using the knapsack as a pillow...