Word: hooey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shrinking dividend yields. Soaring price-to-earnings ratios. Bloated book values. Today that's so much hooey. The Dow is about to triple, argues a soon-to-be-released tract for our times--Dow 36,000 by journalist James Glassman and economist Kevin Hassett...
...Rock and WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?). There are even Bibles for the hip: slim volumes of individual books with introductions by nonreligious figures like singer Nick Cave, writer Will Self and biologist Steven Rose, who explains helpfully in his introduction to Genesis that it pretty much sounds like hooey to him. Seek and ye shall find...
...versa. In fact, if Tuck had conversations with some of the panhandlers that I have talked to, she would learn that many of them live quite comfortably. To be sure, these sorts of beggars are probably not the norm, but Tuck's inane generalizations still smack of guilt-wracked hooey. Tuck needs to give Harvard students more credit; the majority of us are already concerned about the problem of homelessness, but are averse to treating homeless people like they are animals in a petting zoo. ADAM R. KOVACEVICH '99 April...
Thus, this column will be devoted to the reasonable, normal folks out there who couldn't give a rat's hooey about the 10 different types...
Scream 2 seems destined to have no small success among the masses of moviegoers looking for a quick, all-in-one fix. It's something that--we are led to believe by yet another media hooey-machine--plugs directly into our generational needs. Wes Craven doesn't seem satisfied with such commentary and fright-nighting; in Scream 2, he insists on going that one step more meta on our collective ass. Craven should move on; he's made his point. But look for Scream 3 in theaters next year, and don't come running when the cinema is engineered with...