Word: sixpack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...driven computer technology forward, and this continues to be true with the Web. The Web has enabled customers and companies to be connected across distances in an immediate fashion that catalog stores could never do. The primary business that can be done on the Web by the average Joe Sixpack is to visit an on-line store, discount products site or auction...
...stereotype of the average American as "Joe Sixpack" is beginning to take on an entirely new meaning...
...picture four guys sitting around drinking a sixpack of that stuff...
...great distinction of Hughes' approach is that he can move, commandingly, from a Miro canvas to transvestite hookers in the street without missing a beat -- and bring to both the same kind of rigorous attention and full-bodied sensibility. Here is a critic who can put Joe Sixpack and Jacques Derrida in the same sentence. And if at times the sheer weight of detail may almost be dizzying to a newcomer, the text is enlivened at every turn by all the familiar props of the Hughes voice -- the mischievous erudition (translating a Latin motto as "Far down...
...claimed they were motivated by partisan excess. But it can be argued that the authors of the plan were not partisan enough. The White House abandoned the traditional Republican hostility to funding ineffective domestic spending programs. The Democratic leadership surrendered the fairness issue in taxation, socking it to Joe Sixpack's beer bill while allowing the wealthy to weasel out of their fair share of sacrifice...