Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MORAL EQUIVALENCE IS a neat rhetorical ploy, especially when one is not able to argue the issue at hand on its own merits. But playing these games' can turn one's head to mush. F'rinstance: the United States has more than 10,000 warheads pointed at the Soviet Union, ready to end the world as we know it to prevent the spread of Communism (not surprisingly, few conservatives include the armaggedon factor when playing moral equivalence games with South Africa). To be consistent, should we also turn our nuclear arsenal and our massive military might against P.W. Botha, Johannesburg...
Some of these songs may strike Heads fans as mainstream yuk. Guitars mush with drums which further meld into Byrne's vocals. No instrument stands out enough to give the songs the usual simplicity that demands concentration. Resembling a collection of Bruce Springsteen tunes, most of these songs can only be differentiated by their lyrics...
...Harrold) who are secretly married but continue to share a patrol car against department rules. Their deception gets fairly elaborate: they live in neighboring apartments, for example, that are connected by a hidden door in the bookcase. MacGruder & Loud goes through the cop-show motions, but the off-duty mush is clearly where its heart is set. You can't keep a good genre down. Reports of the sitcom's death, it turns out, were premature; all the genre needed was a healthy dose of adult writing, as proved by The Cosby Show, the new season's biggest hit. Enter...
...vote, makes Ferraro a high-risk, high-gain pick," asserted Democratic Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado. Republicans agree, in a kind of left-handed way. Colorado Republican Chairman Howard ("Bo") Callaway, once a campaign manager for Gerald Ford, called the selection of Ferraro "the first excitement, the first non-mush I've seen in Mondale's political career...
...byproduct of this subtle attempt to pacify the American public by sheltering it from the harsh realities of life has producing a disturbing, though by no means novel, phenomenon: Americans prefer banal fantasies and mindless mush to unpleasant docudramas or serious theater. Consequently, when film and television producers make the rare attempt to simulate reality, they generally wind up depicting unconvincing, one-dimensional characters, creating predictable, non controversial situations, and producing stories like One Day at a Time or Happy Days...