Word: shitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because they had plenty of time to express their views early in the semester. No one protests anything of moral importance on this campus. There is all sorts of stuff going on in our country with the changes in Congress and education and welfare cuts and nobody gives a shit...
...successful in polluting his room, though. "I used organic fertilizer," he says. His roommate puts it bluntly: "He made my room smell like shit," says Nigel Tufnel (not his real alias...
...long as we suffered in silence," observes the voice of Judge, "the authorities left us alone. But that silent suffering shit was about to end." Crammed into a holding cell, an informal rap session about how to defend Black rights lets the various voices in the community be heard: the pacifist preacher, the young hotheads and derisive random riffraff (played by screenwriter Melvin Van Peebles, the director's father). Above it all rises the calm authority of Huey Newton and his persuasive argument for Black self-defense...
...this cell has to be experienced to be believed. Another is a video piece: the projected image of a mime, with a chair suspended from the ceiling behind it and a green wax head on the chair. A disembodied voice, calm and in control, first tells the mime, "Shit in your hat," which he pretends to do, and then runs through a set of other instructions, which are obediently acted out; the result is an effective metaphor of weakness and humiliation...
...long hypothesized about the true meaning of those three letters. "Creepy Vicious Sores?" you speculate as you compare prices on moustache bleach. "Cosmic Viking Shit?" you muse while examining the selection of jelly beans. Not to disappoint, but CVS in fact stands for "Consumer Value Stores." (We know--not as exciting as "Can Veritones Squeal...