Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Colorado voters. But in addition, I do prefer the latter view and I would have voted for the amendment. Why? Because I think that this position provides for less intrusion and more "live and let live." Readers of The Crimson will have to be told that this phrase appeared in my testimony; it was actually in the headline of the account in the Denver Post...
BIKINI KILLPussy Whipped (Kill Rock Stars CD/LP) Ever heard of "Riot Grrrl"? Probably. And if you have, you've probably also heard of Bikini Kill, the band whose members ran the fanzine whose title, "Riot Grrrl," was almost certainly the first use of the phrase. Along with other similarly-minded bands and zines, Bikini Kill let thousands of teenaged-or-slightly-older grrrls know that punk rock styles and punk rock music could be, not just about them, but by them and for them. "Riot Grrrl" got lots of misguided (and sometimes hostile) publicity as a mass movement...
...Stern and Limbaugh make it a more interactive, more personal experience," says Everette Dennis of Columbia University."They make it a better, more vibrant medium. It's the triumph of the individual." Limbaugh regularly calls himself "the most dangerous man in America." Stern uses the very phrase to describe himself. The truth is, neither is very dangerous. Rather, the fact that either is seriously considered a threat, that 34% of Americans (and 48% of Democrats) think the government should not allow Rush to make fun of the Clintons on the air, according to the TIME/CNN poll, is more worrisome than...
...what worlds there are to explore! Though some games are, in one exhibitor's phrase, "obsolete by the time we buy them," and though the images may be at the Pong or Space Invaders stage of sophistication, they do give you the sense of being out there, weightless and heedless, in that mysterious space between your ears...
...madness. America's future is bright (if we can only teach Johnny to read, and get him to stop carrying that gun), but that doesn't mean the stock market will keep going up. Stocks may have reached "a permanently high plateau," to borrow Professor Irving Fisher's famous phrase from 1929, but that wasn't true when he uttered it, and it's probably not true now -- although this is certainly...