Word: snits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...papa of gonzo is, of course, Hunter S. Thompson, who at 49 seems to have lost his bite. In his best-selling new book Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s, the old anger has been replaced by a wistful snit, as if Lenny Bruce had lived long enough to turn into another Mort Sahl...
Once, wars were called off for the Olympic Games, but lately the Games have been lopped off for wars. Like a wreath bent out of shape by an ocean wave, one Olympic ring at a time, representing a continent or so, has dislodged itself in a snit and drifted away. The race was still won in 1976, but the Africans weren't in Montreal. The basket was still scored in 1980, but the Americans weren't in Moscow. The weights were still lifted and the punches still landed, but in 1984 the Soviets and Cubans weren't in Los Angeles...
Finally, the man asked the teller to please ring his little bell so that he would know to proceed to his window, at which point the teller told him that the bell was broken. But anality defies pragmatism, and so the man left in a snit, muttering something about system failures and anarchy...
...Snit did obtain seed money from private funding and has applied for grants from the Undergraduate Council, Radcliffe Union of Students, the Office for the Arts, and Radcliffe College, Cohen said...
Organizers chose the name Snit, defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as slang for "a state of agitation or irritation," because "we thought it was a nice word," said Cohen, adding that the magazine will eventually come out quarterly but only twice this year...