Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brooklyn company that has produced baseball trading cards for 35 years. To the older generation, the Garbage Pail Kids are repulsive parodies of the Cabbage Patch Kids, but to the preteen set, ugly is beautiful. Says Auronda Barnes, 8, of Crosswicks, N.J.: "I like them because they're gross...
...Harry's chest, the sardines that drop from between the legs of his philandering wife, the elephant that sits on his car -- or the wild cinematic verve that alchemizes each comic grotesquerie into images as vivid as a bad trip. But Bliss is no mere catalog of surrealist gross-outs. It yanks astonished laughs from the viewer to ease the way along a modern pilgrim's progress, one that finds salvation in the doggedness of obsessive love. Harry tracks his recalcitrant Honey to her home; when she rebuffs him, he plants honey-tree saplings that will take eight years...
Admittedly, there are cases--like the decision to cut across-the-board subsidies of school lunches--in which the Administration can see itself as getting rid of "fancy gimmicks. But, the gross inequities between military and education budgets, as well as dramatic disclosures in recent years of wasteful procurement and contract practices on the part of our armed forces, illustrate that cutting education funding in the name of "balancing the budget" is hardly more than a convenient excuse...
...Nicaragua is not a communist country," said Martinez, who has been Minister of Foreign Trade since the 1979 establishment of the Sandinista government, citing the fact that the private sector accounts for 73 percent of the country's gross economic product...
Roland Reynolds, outgoing editor of the Review, said he is "glad that the president recognized the gross unfairness of the first hearing. But I hope this second hearing won't be used as a sort of witch hunt...