Word: nut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't prepared to get in a discussion with him. So I brushed him off. That conversation really bugged the hell out of me. I remember thinking, This guy is way out there. He's not just eccentric anymore. It was like, Wake up, Ramon, this guy is a nut roll." Martinez never talked to Koernke again...
...couldn't really figure out what relation Baseball Nut has to America's Pastime. And we don't think it's being served at Fenway these days. But the flavor, with cashews and a raspberry ribbon in vanilla ice cream, was featured at the opening of the baseball season. The cashews were few and far between, but the raspberry swirl made the ice cream seem like a light sorbet. Although Baseball Nut had the same vanilla ice cream as the Reese's, it was significantly lighter and less sweet...
Some movies ought to be reviewed not by critics but by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Watching Die Hard with a Vengeance, third in the series that pits New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) against a wily, chatty nut case with a fondness for TNT, the viewer simply suspends belief and coolly appraises the things that go boom. Say, wasn't that a nicely staged Wall Street explosion? My, that runaway subway train crashed onto the platform with a certain vigorous verismo. Oh, look-more actors playing dead people! So little wit is expended...
...Oklahoma City an inevitable descent into violence of the American culture wars? Does it mean that critical mass has been reached in the struggle between Newly Feminized America (as represented by Bill Clinton and his Administration) and the Nut-Case Phallocrats (Newt Gingrich, the National Rifle Association and rant radio in unholy collusion...
...perpetrators of the Oklahoma City bombing really view government as the people's enemy, the burden of fostering that delusion is borne not just by the nut cases who preach conspiracy but also to some extent by those who erode faith in our governance of America in the pursuit of their own ambitions. Inflamed passions produce unintended consequences. In the effort to get attention, to startle, to motivate, a crucial self-control is lost. The gulf between hyperbolic words and last week's despicable treachery is not all that great...