Word: hash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't find anything that good last Thursday on American TV--just the usual hash of soaps, Sesame Street, talk, news ("We begin with a child's torment--a young boy beaten by a pipe!") and reruns of '70s cop shows, the latter accounting for most of the nonjournalistic violence. All told, I witnessed five killings, one every half hour. Not too horrific, but the count surely would have been higher had AMC been featuring John Wayne instead of Ronald Colman...
...tobacco industry no one is safe, and the liquor industry and manufacturers of high-fat foods had better start worrying. "There is, after all, such a thing as equal protection," notes Donahue, "even for the tobacco industry." But Chiles, vehemently anti-tobacco, has proclaimed his determination to make hash of his political enemies and refile the suit if necessary. "The Governor has made it very clear [that] if you expect access to this office to get the great favors, you're with him in this issue," says his general counsel, Dexter Douglas. "We've adopted fixed bayonets, and when that...
Within a year of becoming minority whip, Gingrich was already obsessed with the next job, which became clear when President Bush and congressional leaders met to hash out a deal to reduce the deficit by $500 billion over five years. This was the first time Gingrich was invited to sit with the grownups. If his goal had been to perform as a successful whip who rounds up the troops and keeps them in the party line, he would have used all his energy to support the deal Bush, Dole and minority leader Bob Michel worked out. But Gingrich...
There are some people at Harvard who look forward to eating dining hall hash browns. There are some who visit their favorite Harvard museums every weekend just to see the fossils. There are some who take full advantage of their houses' sunny courtyards on bright fall and spring afternoons...
...conscious storytelling, a slip-shod version of Catcher in the Rye. Its central character, Jimi Banks, graduates from college and, overburdened with a lost love and a friend's suicide, turns himself into a cheap-thrill escape artist. He seeks to lose himself in foreign countries, foreign liquor, hash and lusting after women...