Word: formula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait a minute: Beavis and Butthead are also sexist and dumb! Those robots aren't anywhere near as cool as R2D2 and C3P0! I've figured out a simple formula...
...only people who have successfully evaded this formula are Matt Groening and company. "The Simpsons" is always full of "send-ups" of various cultural phenomena, but what makes them work is the lack of ironic distance at all. "Itchy and Scratchy" is not as different from "Tom and Jerry" as you might think. The informercials playing in the Simpsons' living room are almost exact replies of those playing in my living room right...
...accompanying limitations, provide the main reason why so many of us dread the prospect of growing old. In this culture, aging is portrayed as a time when people become implicated in elaborate (and often not wholly effective) subterfuges which often involve the application of assorted unguents and Grecian Formula...
South Florida saw widespread price gouging in the form of $4 candy bars and $6 cans of baby formula. One store would not sell batteries without the purchase of a TV or radio. A woman filed for an $11,500 loss of household goods, but the address she gave investigators turned out to be in Biscayne Bay. A farmer submitted a photo of someone else's destroyed mobile home and a claim of $19,440; investigators later found his actual, undamaged trailer in Tampa, clear across the state...
...find their way into the milk supply. While there is a germ of truth to their argument, their tactics -- and their rhetoric -- go overboard. Calling BGH "crack for cows," an alert issued by Rifkin's Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends warned consumers -- erroneously -- that ice cream and infant formula from treated cows would be "laced with genetically altered, artificial hormones" and "large amounts...