Word: minis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look! there's the Buddha!" She was right, in a sense. Amid the dead and dying leaves by the roadside, a portly mini-Enlightened One, clad in sheets and made of stone, sat on a rock. But, then again, she could have been referring to the rock, or the leaves, or the ground. They're all the Buddha. At least that's what one weekend in a Zen Buddhist monastery taught...
...lack of subtlety and her inability to see the contradiction in releasing such a document so soon after Bush's dictum led to a mini-disaster. The president forced her to apologize, and the press was occupied with the story during an important time for Bush--the post-convention days, when he needed to seem friendly and inclusive to counteract the divisive disaster of Houston. The image of a nastily-run campaign was 180 degrees wrong for the time...
...since this was essentially Miller's own story, he began at the beginning--as a queer "spermlet" swimming upstream in search of an egg to fertilizer. Then, having in a sense created himself, he passed through an infancy surrounded by "mini dykes and fags" to puberty, when he "tried to use Noxzema to jerk off," to AIDS and the election of Ronald Reagan. By this time, he was spitting out his words in an angry spray of saliva that drifted over the first few rows of the audience...
...into Dade County to rebuild and repair the 117,000 homes, nine public schools, 59 hospitals and health-care facilities, countless malls and a couple of city halls destroyed or damaged by Andrew. So large is the task that Dade County's economic development agency is calling for a "mini Marshall Plan...
...equipped with three dart boards and a mini-basketball game, is popular among Harvard students and Cambridge locals. Manager Goodman says while Harvard graduate and undergraduate students make up a substantial portion of their business, more than 50 percent of the business is based elsewhere...