Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...topic or predicament he described. Lately, however, the stand-up bits have been reduced to brief punctuation marks at the beginning and end of each show, and the supporting characters have been fleshed out: Julia Louis-Dreyfus as his brittle ex-girlfriend Elaine, Jason Alexander as his sad-sack friend George, and Michael Richards as goony next-door neighbor Kramer...
...Exchange between Mary Matalin, Bush campaign political director, and Kevin Sack, reported for the New York Times
...poverty" is unthinkable today. Why is that? People say we have lost the economic optimism and national self- confidence of the 1960s. But the 1980s were also a period of national economic optimism, yet that is when the War on Poverty was officially declared unwinnable. And even the sad-sack 1990s are objectively richer than the 1960s. The difference must be a matter of good intentions...
...Initial responses were mixed. A reviewer for the Austin American-Statesman griped, "I don't remember ever seeing animated retching before, and hope to never see it again." Campus critics took a different view. Ren's constant bleat -- "You bloated sack of protoplasm!" -- began to replace Bart Simpson's "Eat my shorts!" as their put-down of choice. Frank Zappa joined the fan club. So did Robert De Niro and pop singer Matthew Sweet. Dormitories at Yale, the University of Michigan and U.S.C. staged viewing parties, where undergraduates displayed their new Ren & Stimpy T shirts...
...These episodes are designed to be refreshingly outrageous for at least 15 years," says Coffey. Which means the bloated sack of protoplasm will be eliciting laughter well into the 21st century. The thought fills Kricfalusi with equanimity. "I think we are destroying the minds of America," he concludes. "And that's been one of my lifelong ambitions...