Word: reared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when they said it. "He's the tape recorder running when the deal is being cut," says an aide. On the campaign plane, he was known as "the Enforcer" for gently policing the quotes from staff members in the morning papers. When Begala once referred to President Bush's rear end ("If he wants to debate, he can get his butt up to Michigan"), it was Lindsey who told him to get out of macho overdrive...
...start to finish, a perfect act, and a perfect parody of a rock concert. We ate it up. Dean thrashed his head in headbanger circles as he played. Gene wandered to the rear of the stage and set up his microphone. "I'm doin' backup vocals on this one," he explained. They did "Tick," noisier and faster than the album's version. They did "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree," with more vocal tricks by Gene. They did songs nobody knew, and songs everybody was requesting. They talked to the audience the whole time. We talked back...
Unfortunately, the second-half collapse was just about to rear its ugly head...
Probes and people would sally forth into the deeper universe, propelled by thin sails filled by the feeble but inexorable pressure of sunlight or traveling on ion drives that get their boost by shooting high-energy electrified particles out of the rear of the vehicle. Other possible vehicles for space travel may be propelled by a series of tiny thermonuclear explosions using pellets of fuel mined on the moon, or by mass drivers employing electromagnetic fields to expel bucketloads of dirt from the back...
Miller entered from the back of the theater with a line that was a fair indication of what was to come. "I guess you could call this a rear entry," he declared blandly. Those familiar with Miller's work should know that, with this highly personal performance, he has taken a step in a new direction...