Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be hearing a lot about Barton Fink in the next few weeks. Gnomic, claustrophobic, hallucinatory, just plain weird, it is the kind of movie critics can soak up thousands of words analyzing and cinephiles can soak up at least three espressos arguing their way through...
...different national forest, there peaceably to assemble. And peaceably to shake free of the plastic society, hug each other, wear feathers, wear safety pins through their eyelids (as a few metal-head teenagers do), dance all night, smoke pot (some of them), jiggle around nude (some of them), soak themselves with beer (a troublesome minority), rant or chant or quietly meditate...
...that is serving as a social laboratory of this shift. The townspeople do not know it. No pollsters have knocked on doors. Several new folks in town, however, are not exactly who they seem to be. They are researchers from the Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency, sent there to soak up everyday life and find out what people are thinking in the place code-named Laskerville. They are eavesdropping at school-board meetings, at the local cafe and even at funerals (they say the eulogies really sum up the town's values). The ad people have gone to great lengths...
...plane that Saddam would send up against the allies would probably get shot down in short order. Thus, the Iraqis are more likely to deliver their noxious poisons using artillery shells, missiles and rockets. It would take a terrific barrage of any of these to soak enemy troops thoroughly, and once the blasting started, allied bombers would furiously attack the culprits. "Once they're out in the open," says an American pilot, "they're dead meat." The Iraqis might also load mines with chemicals, but these would deliver an isolated punch...
Moving to the national stage as Vermont's only Congressman, Sanders said he will oppose any offensive U.S. military operation in the Persian Gulf and will call for a five-year, 50% slash in defense spending. His soak-the-rich tax ideas will be welcomed by many Democrats. The apparent message from Vermont: let's shake things up in Washington...