Word: fed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Agents traced the bills to a print shop in the basement of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and last month arrested four suspects, including three Columbia dropouts (ahem, they were not journalism students). According to the agents, the suspects taped real 20s to sheets of paper and fed them into a high-quality color copier. Authorities said the men, one of whom worked at the little plant, cranked out more than $85,000 in counterfeit notes, including $12,000 that landed in store tills. That may be one of the most backhanded endorsements for a copier...
...this newer slang is different. It is supposed to confer upon its users an edge, sometimes a comedic but always a faintly combative edge. The era of Saturday Night Live that dished out Dennis Miller's "I'm outta here" and Dana Carvey's "Isn't that special?" fed a hunger for a renewable supply of ironic put-downs. But what may have started as a boomer/Xer shtick has now become a reflex common to all ages, from Bob Dole to Macaulay Culkin (who gave I don't think so its big push by uttering it twice...
...slow and sullen. This leads director Penny Marshall into strategies alternately depressive and manic. She trails dutifully after the dour preacher, then binges on cuteness: a lisping kid's radiance, say, followed by a reaction shot of adoring adults going "Awww." The audience is so many Strasbourg geese, force-fed treacle...
...surely, fruit is not so bad, you say? Healthy and easily-digestible? Try putting yourself in my stomach's position. For the first nine hours of the day, you are fed a fat-filled set of deposits which might include clam chowder, a steak bomb, chicken wings, french fries, turkey meatloaf, broccoli souffle, Rice Krispies treats and ice cream. Then, for the next eight hours, you are fed several bananas and lots of apples: green apples, red apples and yellow apples, spotted and solid apples, Red Delicious and Macintosh. Sometimes you are forced to digest six apples in an evening...
Students at many other colleges--some with better phone service, better academic schedules, better advising, better college bookstores--would willingly trade places with us. People in many other parts of the world would trade places just to live in this country, to be well-clothed and fed. Our lives are not perfect, but they are pretty damn good...