Word: jived
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watson cited Dole's history of opposition to the creation of Medicare, Roe v. Wade and a minimum wage as positions which "do not jive with what Massachusetts families care about...
Wilson "might be speaking French, talking jive or speaking straight standard English," says Robert L. Hall '69, who worked with Wilson on the Afro-Am ad hoc committee. He was always controlled and comfortable, "almost chameleon-like...
...what? The notion of the computer as an "everyday household appliance" alongside the coffeemaker and the microwave oven may not jive with most of the American public today, but that's exactly the perception that the vanguard of the information industry needs to promote...
American Tabloid is history as Hellzapoppin, a long slapstick routine careering around a manic premise: What if the fabled American innocence is all shuck and jive? To underscore his thesis, Ellroy uses spurts of unimaginable violence the way other writers deploy commas and periods: "Sal burned a man to death with a blowtorch. The man's wife came home unexpectedly. Sal shoved a gasoline-soaked rag in her mouth and ignited it. He said she died shooting flames like a dragon...
Unfortunately for Stones devotees, the feeling that these guys are really far out has disappeared. Where is the haunting space and humming jive of "2000 Lightyears From Home"? Where is the delirium of "Midnight Rambler"? You just can't dance or roar with the new stuff. Dare one suggest that Mick and Keith are too straight and sober these days to truly do justice to their reputation? The creativity and let's-all-blow-this-joint-to-pieces attitude of the Rolling Stones has, woefully, subsided...