Word: generics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began to rain down on television and clubs in late 1980. Some of them were concert performances, shot and edited with perfunctory flash; others were like surrealistic visual riffs on the song, head comics for beginners, production numbers soaked in blotter acid. A technological catchall, video quickly became a generic name for these detonations of sight and sound, as those little items played on a phonograph were named for the way they were transcribed or recorded...
Meanwhile, Universe Books has come up with something that may appeal to people who find all the slick new calendars a bit too much. It offers a generic model titled No Frills '84. The calendar simply provides the date and sells for $2.50. -By Stephen Koepp...
...drug produces a kind of mellow euphoria. Introduced in 1965 as a prescription sleeping pill, it was designed to provide a "quiet interlude," hence the name: Quaalude. But the sedative, whose generic name is methaqualone, became a notoriously abused drug. In a dubious tribute, one rock star even had a character in his act named Quay Lewd...
...southeast Asia? If so, can one identify substances? And, as part of that, can one accept the State Department conclusion that among those substances that have been used are mycotoxins? I think the problem of the use of the term yellow rain is it's become almost a generic term for chemical warfare. It's been popularized. I use it to mean a popular term that designates a general chemical warfare, but I prefer not to use the term yellow rain actually...
Similarly, Kunen pursues a discussion of the controversial exclusionary rule--a court-concocted device that excludes illegally seized evidence from the court--by mouthing the generic legal rights justification. "Of course it's terrible for guilty people to go free," Kunen writes. "That's the price we pay for not having cops crawling in and out of our houses. Everybody wants something for nothing." That the United States didn't have cops crawling in and out of Court earlier this century merits neither observation or reflection...