Word: fiends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old cousin Nathan is a sports fiend. On the basketball court or soccer field, he is a study in gravity-defying grace. He can cite volumes of baseball trivia and knows the rule book by heart. But like any kid his age, he is still learning how to play well with others. Nathan has struggled to accept losses without blaming his teammates or coaches or the officials, and to win without gloating...
...weeks ago, I boarded a plane, which used to be a great place to do nothing, and noticed that the man next to me was a nervous wreck. I considered wrestling him to the floor, but he looked more like a nicotine fiend than a terrorist. So the plane takes off, we hit the electronic-device clearance altitude at 10,000 ft., and Mr. Jitters whips out a Game...
Withdrawal sets in. You sweat. You suffer. You fiend for it. Thankfully, spring brings an a cappella rebirth, starting with the fifth annual Miracle Jam. The Veritones, Opportunes, Radcliffe Pitches and Tufts Beelzebubs will perform; On Thin Ice will play hosts. All proceeds benefit the Children's Miracle Network. Sanders Theatre. 496-2222. 8 p.m. $6, available at Sanders Theatre Box Office and BosTix...
...jargon fiend: deconstructionism, New Criticism, revisionism, structuralism, post-modernism, existentialism, your-mamaism: the jargon fiend knows them...
...Beastie Boys hollering, "You gotta fight for your right--to party!" and Public Enemy saying, "Don't believe the hype," and Hammer's harem-style balloon pants. Then gangsta rap: N.W.A. rapping "F____ tha police"; Snoop drawling "187 on an undercover cop"; and Tupac crying, "Even as a crack fiend, mama/ You always was a black queen, mama." Then Mary J. Blige singing hip-hop soul; Guru and Digable Planets mixing rap with bebop; the Fugees "Killing me softly with his song"; Puffy mourning Biggie...