Word: misspent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...18th century decadents, Cruel Intentions offers us a modern prep-school Lothario (Ryan Phillippe, who looks a little like Leonardo DiCaprio on mean pills) and his half-sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar, deploying her TV vampire-slaying smarts in a lesser cause). But what they do on their summer vacation (misspent in upper-crust Manhattan and Long Island) is the same old story--an elaborate scheme to deflower a couple of virgins (Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair) whose virtue irritates and challenges them. As in all the other versions of this story, they succeed, but eventually receive a morally satisfying comeuppance...
...years for that to wear off, during which I ate what hip people were eating in Minneapolis then, ethnic food, most of it awful. I thought of Murray's as a den of Republicans: steaks became (in my mind) politicized. And then, on the very last day of my misspent years in graduate school, my role model and hero Arnie Goldman said, "School's out--what do you say, let's go to Murray's," and so it was cool. We put on our corduroy sportscoats with the leather elbow patches and had dinner, and he ordered us martinis...
Although those responsible are not talking, theprice of each Yearbook this May could be severaldollars higher as a result of the misspent funds,which allegedly went toward phone calls to Koreaand founding a failed female final club...
...about smoking. Today the habit is excoriated -- antitobacconists depict Joe Camel as a schoolyard drug pusher -- and publicly survives only as a vestige of James Dean rebelliousness. Denis Leary's very funny pro-smoking rants are essentially ironic; taken seriously, they would come across as nostalgia for a life misspent. In the recent film Reality Bites, the one hint of Generation X bravado is that all the hipsters smoke and nobody cares...
...also said government aid following the riots has been misspent...