Word: grunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emits a grunt on entering automobiles, I appreciated Kluger's Essay on the middle-aged grunt. But has he noticed that ever since tennis star Monica Seles popularized the "tennis grunt," it has been spreading? And she is definitely younger than middle age. What can be deduced from this trend? Maybe that grunters are "coming out"? BILL DILLON South Bend, Indiana...
While the fact of this middle-aged vocalizing is clear, the reason for it is not. Certainly, it has nothing to do with temperament; the curmudgeonly seem to grunt no more frequently than the congenial. Nor does health or fitness play a role. I exercise four times a week and eat a diet so low in fat my doctor nearly took to prescribing me pork chops, and yet my hoo-boy arrived right on time. But if the roots of the grunt can be found in neither physiology nor psychology, where do they lie? Increasingly, I've begun to suspect...
...think not. I don't think that any committee member has ever considered the fact that the Olympic spectacle includes little of the human voice beyond an occasional grunt by a weight lifter. I don't think that anyone has speculated on the multicultural impact of allowing one team to say "chaddo-guddo" while the other says "techib." No, I think kabaddi was simply not believed...
...Soldier, a hearty exercise in RoboCop sadomachismo that starred Jean-Claude Van Damme. Then, in 1994 Emmerich and Devlin did Stargate, about a secret government agency detecting signs of extraterrestrial life and discovering that the pyramids were made by aliens. With Kurt Russell as the director's standard rogue grunt, the film was a surprise...
...thought I heard another grunt, but it might have been a knock coming out of the transmission...