Word: rat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called the silent generation was because its collective maw was too full to say anything. The "togetherness" theme played endlessly by McCall's magazine was a merchandiser's dream: the family as a consuming unit. Not everyone was satisfied. Halberstam's dissenters include Sloan Wilson, who popularized the rat race in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Betty Friedan, whose The Feminine Mystique, along with Goody Pincus' birth-control pill, challenged traditional relations between men and women...
Scattered protesters around the yard called out "Lift the Ban" while Powell was speaking. But for the most part, protest was visual rat her than vocal...
...quickly, a couple of minor reforms: tell players to get rid of the moldy "gym rat" fad of wearing T shirts under their uniform shirts. This is intended to signify dedication, because if you keep practicing three pointers long after the heat has been turned off, you need a T shirt. But the pros don't dress this way, do they? Also lose the dreary possession arrow and reinstate the jump after a held ball. Little squirts love to try to outjump the big droids, and audiences love to see them do it. Right. And, coach, you up there...
...like the freedom of such a life. John Andrews, 42, a Los Angeles antitrust attorney, remembers working seven weeks without a day off as a young lawyer. He prefers temping at law firms. Says he: "There's no security anymore. Partnerships fold up overnight. Besides, I never had a rat- race mentality, and being a lawyer is the ultimate rat-race job. I like to travel. My car is paid for. I don't own a house. I'm not into mowing grass...
...taco Western." We'd call it a rough, funny Mad Mex. Now all Hollywood is calling Rodriguez because Columbia Pictures is distributing his movie. Not bad for a 24-year-old who raised nearly half the film's budget (okay, $3,000) by serving as a "lab rat" in a medical-research project in his hometown of Austin, Texas...