Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sounding the call of "reverse discrimination" (which ranks among racially charged phrases like "quota queen" and "welfare mother"), Stonecypher and his parents have filed a complaint with the Department of Education alleging that Harvard discriminates against (gasp!) white males...
...best-selling 1992 book that the Vice President has adopted as his slogan. Gore's report will recommend sweeping changes in the way the federal bureaucracy draws up its budgets, organizes its departments and agencies, buys its equipment and supplies, even in its procedures for hiring, promoting and (gasp!) firing employees...
...story line, as spelled out on Side 1 (this is an album best appreciated on cassette or, gasp!, vinyl), is of a man on the emotional ledge. To brassily assonant music, he rages at a social landscape scarred by greed, fame % mongering, obsessive love -- all the strategies of self. He crankily attacks former friends in The Great Wall of China, life on the road ("In hell there's a big hotel/ Where the bar's just closed and the windows never open") in Blonde over Blue, his own no-account depression in A Minor Variation. By the fifth song, though...
...turkey like Living Single. Rap singer Queen Latifah plays one of four "upwardly mobile" black women trying to make it in New York City. Sound familiar? So are all the jokes, including an extended one in the pilot episode about a roommate whose suave boyfriend turns out to be -- gasp! -- married, and predictable put-down lines that depend on characters behaving like either insufferable snobs or total idiots. Stuck-up roommate: "Are you saying that I am shallow?" Wisecracking girlfriend: "Like a kiddie pool." Proceed at your own risk...
...other hand, the one team in the league that has managed to keep ahead of it is...gasp...Yale...