Word: polarizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Like much else in American culture, the changes have been most visible first in California, the place where the face of the nation is changing most rapidly. There, Hispanic and Asian presences have both fueled and complicated the p.c. and multicultural debates that initially arose out of polar conflicts between blacks and whites or men and women...
...emphasize that I use the phrase "mentally ill" with great reluctance since it so often bears pejorative connotations in the minds of the ignorant: I hope greatly to revise the usual conceptions of the phrase. The most common forms of mental illness are `uni-polar' depressions (meaning tending only toward a depressed rather than a manic state of mind) termed `mild' to `moderate' on the clinical scale-not severe enough to require in-patient treatment, but devastating nonetheless...
...dependent on our one big line of A.J. Mleczko, Joey Alissi and Stacy Kellogg," Dooley said. "We have potential in the other two lines, but we have to get more scoring punch out of them. While the players on our first line all played on the Connecticut Polar Bears and are familiar with each other, these people are brand new playing with each other. The team in February will be a different team...
This was 1989--before "Twin Peaks," "Northern Exposure" and Nirvana made Seattle hip. In 1989 fellow Harvardians were still asking me if I'd ever seen a polar bear. My friends saw Seattle as either incredibly provinicial or incredibly exotic--about the only thing anyone knew about the city was that it rained all the time...
Letterman's father, a florist who died when David was 27, was a "polar opposite. When he would walk through a room, lamps would rattle. He was funny and energetic and a goofball, screaming and hollering, making corny jokes. Then when he died, the focus shifted obviously to my mother, and none of us realized how quiet and undemonstrative she was. It took some re-getting used to. My first 27 years, I'm living in a fraternity house. It was all thunder and lightning. And with my mom now, it's kind of a gentle spring rain...