Word: heard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These attitudes are revisited in Dead Poets Society, which assiduously apes the manner of this antique genre, and they may put off viewers who will recollect having heard this song before. But the film is also at pains not to exploit or endorse the lowest impulses of its core audience, which is, of course, composed of adolescents. It contains no har-har pranks. No one wrecks a car, gets drunk or does anything more with a girl than hold hands...
Although Nagy said the decision was not common knowledge at the University of Michigan, he added that he had "recently heard some mumblings [around the office...
...years. Last year more people moved out of the area than moved in for the first time since the Depression years of the 1930s. In that climate, voters bought the promises of Romer and Pena that a new airport would mean jobs and prosperity. "What you heard today from the voters was the sound of Denver taking off!" shouted Pena on election night. Branding such talk a "psychological aphrodisiac," retired Rear Admiral Richard Young, who led the opposition, declared, "Somehow, by voting for the airport, there is the feeling everybody is going to be jump- started, and everyone is going...
...this point, it all seemed unreal. But the second car's arrival forced me to take it more seriously. I hoped the police were not prepared to "apprehend the perpetrators." There were several inaudible words over the walkie-talkie, then I heard "dark clothes..." I cursed myself for not being dressed in a bright suit...
...Then we heard the words that would set us free: "Dark-skin Blacks." At the same time, we reached out, instinctively, and showed him our nearly-red Black (a former girlfriend once told me I was closer to orange than Black) arms. I had to suppress a laugh, as I wondered if whites are ever identified as light-skin and dark-skin whites...