Word: moos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smiley, the author of eight books, won a Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Acres. She discussed the ugliness of monocultures and read a chapter from her forthcoming book, Moo...
...fact, when Quad residents are herded onto the early morning buses, it can be nearly impossible to get a seat. "I always feel an urge to moo," Mulcahy says...
...transcendental meditation for cardiovascular disease and acupuncture for substance abuse. "We may look at touch therapy, which is said to make patients better quicker," he says. "Or homeopathy, to relieve allergies, bronchitis or insomnia." He is also intrigued by wood ear, a tree fungus used in making moo shu pork, which is supposed to be a great blood thinner...
Suddenly, computers that had whirred quietly for years started making the strangest sounds. Some began to moo like a cow every hour on the hour. Others greeted each new program with the sound of breaking glass. Still others spent their spare moments doing celebrity impersonations: Ed McMahon belly laughing, Ronald Reagan mumbling, "Well . . .," George Bush advising that a particular keystroke "wouldn't be prudent" or Star Trek's Dr. McCoy spluttering, "Dammit...
...Crystal spends much of one day on the trail fruitlessly trying to explain to Daniel Stern how to tape one show while watching another. "He'll never get it!" cries their partner, Bruno Kirby. "It's been four hours. The cows can tape something by now." Yes, and those moo-activated VCRs are just around the corner...