Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some images in recent films are both repellent and (the tricky part) exciting. Some song lyrics express a rage that's not easy to take as irony. And, yes, a movie or song or TV show may inspire some sick twist to earn satanic stardom with a gun. But most kids deserve the respect their parents wanted when they were kids: to be able to consume bits of pop culture and decide on their own whether it's poetry, entertainment or junk...
...said Gary Bauer, a conservative activist who coincidentally launched his presidential campaign the day after the Littleton murders. Even Pat Buchanan, after firing off a few half-hearted rounds at the "poison of our popular culture," could offer little more than a shake of the head. "There was something sick and wrong inside those boys," he said. "I don't know how to stop...
...Serbs have slaughtered hundreds and burned villages. Russia's Yevgeni Primakov and Milosevic have hugged and laughed, and President Clinton has played golf. What a sick situation! If ground troops become involved, it will be even sicker. VINCENT CORBETT Morrison, Colo...
...yanked Harris' site within hours of last week's shooting, preserving its contents for an FBI investigation. But copies were already circulating across cyberspace--along with a few sick hoaxes--and their contents made many folks eager to blame the Internet for this tragedy. Others pointed to violent video games, particularly Doom and Quake, Harris' favorites. In these seminal works, players wander through claustrophobic corridors in a terrifyingly real first-person perspective, blasting the guts out of their enemies with a blistering array of weaponry. "You can actually set the gore level on some of [these games]," notes Jeff Inman...
...since I was sick on marshmallows and watching Barbie commercials have I experienced something like this. But frankly, as I've never been involved in hub-cap theft and convex mirrors are thus completely alien to me, Girls on the Run is nonetheless exceptionally accessible--in Ashbery's (still-verdant) oeuvre...