Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...published hisComing Apart, a memoir of Harvard at the time of the takeover. Like so much of the 1960's--the abstract concept of "the sixties" is condemned by conservatives as the root of every problem from drug abuse to the Clinton presidency and praised by liberals as the heyday of the civil rights movement--University Hall has been inflated to near-mythic status...
Some people only see that I'm white," gripes Detroit rapper Eminem. But what comes out of his mouth is getting more attention than the color of his skin. Not since the heyday of N.W.A. has hip-hop served up a feast of violence and fantasy as fiendishly witty as Eminem's The Slim Shady LP. On a song titled '97 Bonnie & Clyde, a ripping satire of Will Smith's treacly Just the Two of Us, Eminem raps about pushing his troublesome spouse off a pier while their daughter looks on. "There goes mama splashing in the water/ No more...
...truth, Bakelite--whose more chemically formal name is polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride--was just a harbinger of the age of plastics. Since Bakelite's heyday, researchers have churned out a polysyllabic catalog of plastics: polymethylmethacrylate (Plexiglas), polyesters, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC, a.k.a. vinyl), polyhexamethylene adipamide (the original nylon polymer), polytetraperfluoroethylene (Teflon), polyurethane, poly- this, poly-that...
...their heyday, the Pretty Things were maybe the nastiest band around, racking up a truly admirable 61 convictions. The hilarious liner notes to their new album answers the following question in the affirmative: "didn't they live with Brian Jones and get into real fights and have bisexual encounters in the mid 60s and get banned from places and stuff?" But it never explains why anyone should listen to this album and not their 60s triumphs. They out-Stoned the Stones. Unfortunately, both of these bands are still around. The Stones have sucked for a good long time...
...Despite the relatively small influence they have on general student life at Yale, the societies are no secret on the Web, especially the most prestigious and oldest of the societies: Skull and Bones. Grouped with such organizations as the Illuminati and the Knights Templar, conspiracy theorists have had a heyday describing just how Skull and Bones conceives of further plots to psychologicallycontrol and manipulate the human race. An essayfound on the Web about Skull and Bones begins:"Everything you wanted to know about Skull andBones but were afraid to ask: three threads ofAmerican social history--espionage, drug smugglingand secret societies...