Word: scum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Obsessive. Yes, we're all obsessive, but some are more obsessive than others. We're talking about the person who will call a house meeting at the first sign of soap scum in the bathroom. The one you'll see at midnight organizing his files. The one who will put up a list of chores and end up doing them all herself. The one who will get kicked out of the house by the second week...
...folks made the classic finger-in-throat gesture, or pitched forward face first into their azalea beds. On the cover of the Nation, presidential history was depicted as a Darwinian descent from the triumphantly upright Franklin Roosevelt on down to an invertebrate Clinton-Dole level just above the primordial scum...
Keith Hamilton Cobb hates his steady job being a "bland" good guy on All My Children. So he's leaving for L.A. and more challenging roles. "I don't mind playing the scum of the earth if he can also recite Byron," he says. Wait a minute. Haven't we seen this episode before? Roger Howarth, sick of being a good guy, left One Life to Live for L.A. late last year. And where is he now? Back on One Life to Live...
...wrote poetry as well, though his former friends are contemptuous of his efforts. One poem from 1971, apparently an attempt to capture the feelings of Yugoslav peasants, was called, "Let's Go Down to the Town and Kill Some Scum." Says writer and essayist Marko Vesovic, 51, a fellow Montenegrin who has known Karadzic since 1963: "His poems didn't have character. He imitated the style of whoever impressed him." But Karadzic's buddies sympathized with him because, says Vesovic, "while we were studying literature, he was dissecting stinking bodies" in medical school...
...vote-getting ability, winning almost 15% in the first round last June. But now that he is on the official stage in Moscow, he is turning into something of a loose cannon in the eyes of his government colleagues. In a series of public statements Lebed called Mormons "scum," told a visitor not to talk "like a Jew," and suggested the position of Vice President should be re-established, with himself in the role. As a strongman, "I look more like a Vice President," he told state television. "I need more powers," he said, even though he described himself...