Word: plain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Budweiser commercial: "Why are scissor sales up?" Why, to cut off penises, as they state on page 7. "Why does Alice Jardine have tenure?" A better question might be, 'Where will she teach now, since Kelly Bowdren's take-no-prisoners expose proves she's just plain loopy?' "Why does my girlfriend own a gun?" Because as a Guardian, I support the Second Amendment: the right to bear arms, and the right to barefoot and pregnant: Yeah, Peninsula...
...certainly not the only woman on The Crimson. (Hey, if I hadn't added that, my female editors would have). I'm not breaking any ground. And I don't do any of these activities to prove a point--I do them because I enjoy them, plain and simple...
...violation of a right. Robert Nagel, professor of law at the University of Colorado, warns, "The rights makers are like children with toys, so delighted and entranced by them they want more and more, heedless of the consequences." Consider lookism, as the practice of preferring the pretty over the plain is called in rights jurisprudence. In the Harvard Law Review, Adam Cohen of the American Civil Liberties Union argues that ugly people need to be protected against discrimination too. Cohen says, "People don't realize how pervasive the preference for the beautiful is in our society, starting with teachers...
...materials to process. Harvests rot in the fields for want of distribution. We see no cars and few buses on the broad boulevards; people travel by bicycle, horse and buggy, or crammed aboard the occasional flatbed truck. There are swizzle sticks but no soap; no toilet paper, no plain paper either. By day a pall of smoke hangs over the city: the government, desperate to limit the daily 12- hour blackouts of summer, spent some of its precious cash on cheap, dirty oil to fire the electric plants. But nights are still dark and silent; only the light from...
...more excitement in the African-American community than the company intended. The spot featured dark-skinned island "natives" with painted faces, dancing in loincloths, flames belching from their mouths. African Americans immediately attacked Taco Bell's attempt at multicultural advertising. Oakland city council official Fred Ferguson described it as "plain and simple racist." The ad was withdrawn...