Word: nut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just a Squirrel Tryin' to Get a Nut" (Fifteen Minutes, Nov. 5): It frightens me to think that two intelligent and well-educated women would rather accentuate issues of gender inequality than fight them. The writers continually refer to the women of Wellesley as "girls" as opposed to Harvard men, suggesting the subservience of women. These authors are only helping to strengthen the part of our society which hopes to make women subservient...
...guys know any other swing bands? The Squirrel Nut Zippers were here [at the Roxy] a few weeks...
...bust a nut: (v.) to work really hard. "Mike's busting a nut over CS 50 and he's turning into an RSI-case...
...sassy CIA operative (Annette Bening) who knows more about these terrorists than she can tell because she's in love with one of them. Even Bruce Willis' Army general, leading the troops who take over the city, is given an interesting spin. He's one tough, exceedingly dutiful nut. But we also know he's overcompensating, because in an earlier scene he has given a speech against martial law. He doesn't think policing their own citizens is proper work for soldiers...
...possible that one so weary of being tagged a nut case will produce a journalistically sound program. "It's unbelievable how frightened some journalists are of anybody outside their profession digging around," Stone says. "Critics will say we're the conspiracy cranks, but on the contrary--if there's no conspiracy, fine." Stone understands, moreover, that the average viewer of network news is a candidate for Geritol: "We want to do the same thing as 60 Minutes but in a new kind of way that makes it hip." In other words, his show could delight us with dark possibilities...