Word: hail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine that you're passing through the nation's capital and turn on the local sports radio station to hear blaring, "Hail to the Niggers! Hail victory!" What would you do? While some people in America would undoubtedly welcome this racist assault on the senses, I think that many people, especially African-Americans, would nearly die from the shock. All sorts of organizations would have massive protests and boycotts assembled within hours. The bloodthirsty media (that's us), always in search of conflict, would find somebody's house to stake out, and, eventually, due to the mounting pressure from plebs...
...Hail, hail, the new provost...
...truth universally acknowledged that Nordstrom stores have wrapped up the title for top-of-the-line customer service. They will take back returns with a smile, hail you a cab and send out a salesclerk and tailor with armloads of clothes if you're too busy to go shopping. If it's footwear you're after, Nordstrom's vast shoe sections boast up to 150,000 pairs from sizes 4 to 21. "I really like Nordstrom," says Kelly Chandler, 28, a marketing specialist at a Seattle radio station who has shopped at the fashion retailer's flagship store since...
...lazy role of using heaven and hell as "stories meant to encourage and frighten." Catholicism's once vivid otherworldliness had devolved into a sort of rote board game, in which preoccupation with involved scenarios of the life to come became an excuse to measure out one's life in Hail Marys and First Fridays while ignoring real moral concerns. Not only did this baroque stasis "go beyond the knowledge provided in Scripture: 'Eye hath not seen nor ear heard,'" McBrien maintains, but it also essentially "forfeited the game to the critical scientific mind that dismisses it as unbelievable." What some...
...lyrics merely reflect violence and vendettas, or can they intensify feuds and provoke retaliation? The question of whether art imitates life or life imitates art becomes hopelessly confused. Both Tupac and Biggie presented a glorified caricature of the gangsta lifestyle, boasting of slaying opponents in a hail of gunfire. Yet, their criminal bravado was not merely an act; they each accumulated long rap sheets and spent time in prison...