Word: smirking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the largely white punk athletes have an attitude that is as infectious as it is intimidating. There is none of Michael Jordan's focused intensity. Instead, street lugers smirk and greet the camera as they prepare to peel down a hay-bale-lined hill at 63 m.p.h., just 5/16 of an inch from the ground. Like the cartoon version of Jordan's flu-plagued 1997 playoff performance, Lee Dansie rides with two broken ribs, qualifies for the finals and then jumps into the camera lens: "Hope I didn't hurt your ankles, cameraman dude...
...what will the next century be? The reams of guesses made in the next two years are destined to be digitally retrieved decades hence and read with a smirk. But let's take that risk, peer into the haze and slap a few labels on the postmillennial period...
...dining hall, really the same person as this middle-aged man, who himself is not noticeably different from any of my parents' friends? And what happened in those intervening years? How does one metamorphose out of a gangly 22 year-old, posing with an awkwardly self-conscious smirk, into a stolid 47 year-old whose smug grin is nothing if not genuine and unaffected...
After delivering a form to the Financial Aid Office, they take a short break to practice "feet moving." With a smirk on his face. Dylan shows off his walking (and climbing) skills on a table by the elevator outside the third-floor office. He doesn't even stumble...
...Wipe the smirk off your face. This is not a paid announcement for Gore 2000. Of course, things are far from perfect--life at the bottom of the ladder remains a desperate struggle for millions of Americans, and scrambling up the rungs can seem well-nigh impossible. But get used to it, pilgrim: For better or worse, this may be just about as good as it gets in the U.S.A...