Word: potted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dislikes shaking hands 2 Finished fifth from last in his college class 3 Likes Van Morrison 4 Admitted smoking pot 5 Asks supporters to pray for him and his wife 6 Wrote college thesis on Canadian trade with Cuba...
...when to express the proper emotions and can no longer communicate with his daughter or wife. Burnham eventually snaps this spell by developing a strong sexual fantasy for his daughter's 17-year-old friend, triggering an entirely hedonistic lifestyle in which he buys whatever he wants and smokes pot all day. This is a direct reaction to his prior condition of too much independence. It is no coincidence that he chooses to work at "Mr. Smiley's" and asks for the job that will require the least amount of responsibility...
...Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden mentions in Fight Club, thirty-somethings are the "middle children of history:" forgotten in the shadow of those who come before and after them. Yuppies are expected to make it through somehow, become an accountant, and show up for Thanksgiving with a crock-pot or two of mashed potatoes as bland and frothy as their own lives. Yuppies have had no Great War or Great Depression in their time; their Great Depression is, as Durden says, "their entire lives." A yuppie's existential malaise springs from the very stability and conformity that defines...
...Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden mentions in Fight Club, thirty-somethings are the "middle children of history:" forgotten in the shadow of those who come before and after them. Yuppies are expected to make it through somehow, become an accountant, and show up for Thanksgiving with a crock-pot or two of mashed potatoes as bland and frothy as their own lives. Yuppies have had no Great War or Great Depression in their time; their Great Depression is, as Durden says, "their entire lives." A yuppie's existential malaise springs from the very stability and conformity that defines...
...Hasty Pudding Club got its name from a stipulation in its 1795 constitution that two members should bring a pot of hasty pudding to each meeting...