Word: mopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unwound's stage presence symbolized this psychological isolation from peers as the trend du jour. Mop-headed, slackjawed, distant and sedated, Trosper and bassist Vern Rumsey slumped over themselves as they aimlessly strummed away in their emotional vacuum. Remaining unresponsive to their fans, the pair rarely deviated from a tired routine...
...that comes from shaving your head--a decision that unfortunately too many of my friends made during freshman year--which is probably analogous to subjecting yourself to radical personal change. The most frightening aspect is that despite the alteration, your hair more or less grows back into the same mop, flattering or unflattering as the case...
...falls in all the right places. She endears herself to U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones '69) with her charming ignorance of U.S. laws against lying to federal agents, and she knows when to let her man go. The real reason for the change? Perhaps Angela Bassett could mop the floor with him, beat him until people that loved him wouldn't know him. But these are ridiculous statements to make about a movie that's based on something as untrue and trite as good triumphing over evil. That's Grimm alright. This movie is about the world...
...Kennedy International Airport, and the whole place went up for grabs. Some 2,000 hooky-playing, caterwauling teenagers stomped, whistled, screamed, sang or just plain fainted while the plane slowly disgorged 105 passengers, 11 crew members and four British Beetles. Oops, Beatles. On their first U.S. tour, the mop-topped, top pop wailers, John Lennon, 23, George Harrison, 21, Paul McCartney, 21, and Ringo Starr, 23, grinned amiably at the whole mad display. What was their secret? "A good press agent," chirped Ringo. (They have...
Poison experts hope this incident will increase public awareness of mercury's dangers. Some immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean make a religious or good-luck totem by mixing mercury with mop water or burning it with a candle. Doctors believe that mercury vapors from these rituals may be slowly poisoning entire families, in a tragedy more far-reaching, if less dramatic, than the one in Texarkana...