Word: scream
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...particular forces us on a guilt trip in the aftermath of tragedy. We naturally feel repulsed by a holiday so wrapped in images of violence and evil. After all, the holiday encourages kids to dress up as monsters and assassins of all kinds; the distinctive killer of the Scream trilogy has a following of children as young as seven, and of course, time-honored classics like Jason and Freddy Krueger are always popular...
...vent your anger, the experts say, but there is so much of it, especially in the city with a gash in the ground where our skyscrapers used to be. In lower Manhattan they vacuum and wipe, go to work, go to a funeral, then come home, vacuum and wipe, scream at the community-board meeting about the filth in the air--How much asbestos is there anyway?--and the absence of school buses. After the first few weeks of quiet, the city's crisis hotlines are blistered with calls and there are no beds available in the psychiatric wards...
...magic bean, namely the arsenal of medieval-inspired brassieres that promise to hoist, squeeze, lift and hydro-thrust my breasts oh-so-far out there for every Tom, Dick and sketchy first-year to ogle. Britney I am not, and the thought of making my little ladies scream “hit me baby one more time” sends me into a panic...
...This was never designed to be an aggressive action,” he said. “We’re not there to scream and protest the installation...
Current polls leave no doubt that the peacenik naysayers now running to the flowers are but a tiny minority of our people. Yet they scream in a voice that is loud and familiar. The neo-hippies who jeer from their idle repose in academia’s ideological daisy-fields are relics of the slovenly anarchism that was born of our parents’ generation, reached its apogee at the height of the Vietnam War, and survives to this day in tenured faculty positions everywhere. And it is the fantasies of that generation—its moral relativism, its cult...