Word: junked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reading the shopworn stereotypes and outlandish characterizations of central Nevada in Walter Kirn's piece "Conspiracy, U.S.A." made me suspect the authenticity of the reporting on the other places. Do brothels and junk stores offer an accurate window into Nevada's towns? Or perhaps you were just looking for something colorful from the Wild West. At best, the Nevada story was condescending. It is a good example of how presuppositions can control perceptions. ED IVERSON Fallon...
...Utah desert, where patriotic citizens who once loved the Pentagon now distrust it enough to wonder about all the chemical-weapons stockpiles waiting to be incinerated in their backyard. The NORAD installation in Cheyenne Mountain, Colo., built to track Soviet missiles, now scans the skies for space junk...
...Austin, Nev., a rickety mining town whose gold ore was exhausted years ago, junk-shop proprietor Leo Wolfers is sweeping up a pile of window glass shattered by a mysterious sonic boom. Wolfers is used to the screaming fighter jets that take off from nearby Fallon Naval Air Station, but he says the plane that smashed his windows was no ordinary craft. "It was diamond shaped. It could rise straight up and hover. One of those planes they aren't allowed to talk about. Their pilots crash into mountains all the time, but the Navy just covers...
...fourth guy says, "All movies are comic books these days. Let's do more movies based on comic books!" Not just Batman & Robin and Men in Black but also two August releases, Spawn and Steel, are comic book-inspired. This junk-culture trend must please the kids in the Development departments; no more novels to read, with all those annoying words...
...press of a key and--bang!--the item would have been broadcast to the 60,000 Internet users who receive his breathless E-mail bulletins (and to tens of thousands more who visit his Website). There's nothing an avid Drudgester likes more than watching the king of new junk media outscoop the scoopers...