Word: purer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there we have it, the distinctive combination of lawlessness and foolishness that characterizes modern liberalism. With utter disregard for democratic legitimacy and policy soundness, liberals have struck again. This time, however, they were too clever by half, for liberals never have displayed their underhandedness and silliness in purer form...
...majority of addicts are still poor, city-dwelling adults, but teens account for more than a fifth of those who say they have taken heroin in the past year, double the proportion in the early '90s. Researchers believe more kids are using it because it is now sold in purer form--pure enough to snort or smoke. Like Ted, most teens will not inject, but they don't mind taking a puff or a sniff. (Injecting heroin is the quickest way to experience its rush, but the drug still packs a punch when snorted or smoked...
Some folks blame the big country-radio stations, whose playlists lull listeners. "The stations play the same 50 records every week," says Mercury Nashville president Luke Lewis. "I call it Prozac radio." The hope never dies for a purer, "alternative" country voice, but that's hard to find on mainstream radio. "A lot of program directors come from the rock format," says Holly Gleason, a premier Nashville publicist who has midwifed the careers of stars Patty Loveless and Collin Raye, "and don't have a feeling for the country tradition. Their allegiance isn't to the roots...
...young professionals are moving because their jobs can move with them, retirees are moving because their fat 401(k) accounts can put them almost anywhere. And whether young or old, the new emigres share a sense that they're reinventing their lives in places that seem purer than the suburban moonscape one emigre calls "the United States of Generica." They believe that in rural America they won't get lost--and maybe they'll even leave a mark...
...their very different ways, each of the Big Three of modern Japanese literature--Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata and Junichiro Tanizaki--devoted himself to commemorating aspects of an older, purer Japan they all felt would wither after their country's defeat in World War II. That left their postwar successors, most notably Haruki Murakami, to record the ghosts and vacant lots of a land whose spirit seemed to have vanished, leaving a soulless, synthetic wasteland of Dunkin' Donuts parlors, automated fashion victims and cinder-block abortion clinics...