Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyway: implied opposition to gays in the military (and in general) stems from bigotry, ignores good reasons for keeping ban on gays in military, includes a passionate lesbian kiss. The center presented the last one as though it was a completely radical element included just to freak the audience...
...profile of Unabomber as a single white male, probably in his early 40s, with at least a high school education and some experience, even if indirect, with higher learning. Although Unabomber claims to belong to an anarchist group called F.C., he appears to be a loner and a neat freak, whose deadly packages are constructed with care, even though some elements are homemade...
...admission to Gina Grant, when it was discovered that she had murdered her mother; Harvard was oftentimes cast as not trusting in the juvenile justice system to reform offenders, hypocritically defending the system but doing nothing to practice what it preached. A helicopter crashed into a University boathouse. A freak virus sent hundreds of freshman to UHS. Harvard Medical School Professor John Mack claimed that aliens from outer space were kidnapping and sexually abusing humans. Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz joined the O.J. Simpson circus as part of the defense team...
...social problems that have become iconographic media buzzwords for all of us--AIDS, drug abuse, violent crime--are now intermingled and tainted by the perversity and appetite for sensationalism that characterize mass media's "news magazine" shows, talk show-freak show circuses and even print media. An entire industry of grotesque entertainment glorifies radical hedonism and an utter lack of respect for others. All of this alienates the individual from his human context, exacerbating the sense of removal from reality that infects so many young people...
...disappointing year in a lot of ways," Harvard coach Frank Haggerty said. "We came in with high expectations only to have them go down with a number of freak injuries. We were hurting all fall...