Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those were the good old days, when TV signals came over the air and telephone calls came over wire. I remember when we used to say 500 channels were plenty, who needed digital this, two-way that, broadband switching and all that interactive mumbo jumbo? But once people got used to the idea of dialing their TVs like telephones and ordering up shows from the storage disks, things just took...
...Eight years later he moved to Berkeley, where he has been teaching ever since, and in 1979 relocated to an Oakland neighborhood of the type his parents "spent about a third of their lives trying to escape." Reed has published poetry anthologies, plays and 10 novels, including Freelance Pallbearers, Mumbo Jumbo and Reckless Eyeballing. He spoke with The Crimson recently about his latest satire, Japanese by Spring, and his status as the "bad boy of American publishing...
...culture without a strong support system. They were saying that rap is misogynist. There's alot of misogyny in rock-and-roll, but that doesn't get criticized. I think rap is perfect, with its mixing and sampling. I was doing mixing and sampling back in the 60s, Palbearers, Mumbo Jumbo, it's all mixing and sampling stuff. I used disparate streams of data...
...such, his totem color was blue, and his mortal enemies, who wore red, were Bloods, and in particular a nearby Bloods subset called the Skyline Pirus. (Black Crips and Bloods gangs, now nationwide, got their start in Los Angeles in the early '70s.) The bonding ritual was a subadolescent mumbo jumbo of slogans and hand signs, like those used by adult fraternal groups. Car theft, drug selling and smash-and-grab robbery (smash a storefront with a car, wait for the glass to settle, and grab the goods) were agreeable moneymakers, but what gave the Crips their legends and their...
Despite such techno talk, none of these drugs has been proved effective in properly designed, double-blind trials. "I think they are silly," says the University of California's McGaugh, who dismisses the elaborate explanations of how the drugs work as "scientific mumbo jumbo." If such substances were indeed effective -- and safe -- he points out, drug companies, which stand to gain hundreds of millions of dollars from their sale, would have marketed them years...