Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school at the time, but that's what I gathered from Bret Easton Ellis novels. These days, when name dropping has been replaced by gym dropping ("I was wondering, while I was on the Stair Master..."), rich people are spending their money to keep pleasure away from them. I know a guy who belongs to a gym that charges him extra for not going. And I've got a guy who keeps me from getting the phone numbers of hot, dangerous women. He's called my hairdresser...
...between Cal Ripken and a machine that crushes cars, was in my office for about three minutes before he jumped up, ran his hands over my upper body and estimated my body-fat percentage. Here my notes say just that "he touched me in funny places." I don't know if I was trying to be a thorough reporter or just really well instructed from that ABC Afterschool Special...
Wisdom was also a man of his time. A member of the elite white class of New Orleans and a dedicated Republican, he belonged to private clubs that excluded blacks and Jews. "They know how I stand on these matters," he said. "I certainly wouldn't change their views by getting out." Perhaps not. But Wisdom's opinions certainly moved us closer to the time when no element of society is excluded from enjoying the fruits of our democracy...
...teens who need medication just to function or lessen the real dangers they might pose to others or themselves, the new medications may truly be miraculous. I know from my own experience with clinical depression (contracted as an adult and treated with a combination of therapy and drugs) that such diseases are real and formidable, impossible to wish away. But for kids in the murky emotional borderlands described in books like The Catcher in the Rye, antidepressants, stimulants and sedatives aren't a substitute for books and records, heroes and antiheroes. "I get bored sometimes," Holden Caulfield says, "when people...
...Littleton to mark the one-month anniversary of the massacre, the Senate was debating a juvenile-crime bill. Then the bulletins flashed across TV screens, we were back in the helicopter over yet another school, more running children, fluttering yellow crime tape, flushed sheriffs, nodding anchormen. We didn't know what it would take to pass the first modest gun-control provision in five years...