Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days they blame the cathode-ray devil for instigating the violence that blights the American landscape, as they have before blamed it for sexual promiscuity and the perennial under-performance of American students. Television is a popular target for legislative crusaders, largely because it is a devil, which promises to be far easier to exorcise than the real ones it sometimes echoes...
...resolve. Perhaps the most serious is the concern that widespread use of antibiotics in the mouth could create super-virulent strains of gum-ravaging bacteria that would resist any attempts at treatment. "A lot of the new therapies are just at the tinkering, research stage right now," says Ray Williams, chairman of Harvard University's periodontal department. Until the gum-disease treatments get FDA approval, most people's options will remain the same as always: brush, floss and visit the dentist regularly -- or face the knife...
...people with a zillion dollars in the bank aren't all bad. Either way, everything feels compromised, corrupted. The phone rings. It's Philip Morris -- they want to sponsor your next tour, hold a cigarette giveaway in your name. And do you mind a double billing with Billy Ray Cyrus...
Also, Kaufmann spoils valuable shock potential by casting edgy-psycho specialist Ray Wise as an important senator. There's no question the senator is up to something after Wise's first goofy leer. Some unexpectedly intense eroticism seems thrown in to earn the film its thriller merit badge, but excellent, brooding camera work goes a lot further to keep our interest. The Crichton hit factory churns...
...those cases, the Boston bomb squad was called in to x-ray the packages, while Cambridge bomb technicians handled yesterday's incident alone...