Word: fight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tammy Shewchuck led the white-jerseyed team to victory in the women's scrimmage, defeating the crimson jerseys 3-0. Without the traditional staged fight, the men's scrimmage came up short, ending in a scoreless tie after the 10-minute game...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) stopped a fight between two taxi drivers over a fare. Both taxis were damaged during the fight...
...Fight Club tries to turn the same self-referential tricks as Smith's movies as an antidote to the violence of yuppie angst. The Clockwork Orange-esque rejoicing in mayhem that characterizes so much of the movie is contrasted with its many self-referential moments (without giving too much away...): the bizarre walk through the IKEA catalog; the moment when movie projectionist Tyler Durden, discussing the "change filmstrip" blip that appears on movie screens, points to the one on the screen of the movie he is in; and a final revelation about the relationship between Durden and the narrator. Unfortunately...
...Fight Club is not the first time someone has tried to grapple with yuppie angst. When the New Beetle was unveiled in 1998, the cough-drop-on-wheels was touted as the ultimate antidote to the ennui of the under-40 crowd. It was deja vu all over again: here was the "Love Bug," the charmingly rotund little symbol of all things flower-power, updated for the era of power-lunches. The folks at Volkswagen hoped to invoke the freewheeling Age of Aquarius (when most yuppies were too young or to stoned to care), making every yupster on the planet...
...Russians to come onto more favorable terrain," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "They haven?t made much effort to resist Moscow?s offensive on the northern flatlands, where they?re vulnerable to the Russians? superior firepower and air support. But they?ll give the Russians a fierce fight in the mountains and forests across the river...