Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps I'm being too harsh. After all, today's fashion does lean towards conformity. Gap does sound strangely fascist in their ads that chant "everyone in cords." But when I brought the topic up with my friends, they not only agreed with me, they added to my list of complaints. "Look at how they depict women!" my roommate intoned. Indeed, to the dismay of our Harvard rugby team, the Abercrombie girls were ignominiously relegated to the sidelines and depicted as screaming rugby fans, rather than players. In the boxing spread, the girls were shown having their gloves tied...
...hearings, beginning this week, aimed at flogging the Administration for everything that's gone wrong in Russia. And the Clinton folks are fighting back with high-spin verbiage, casting the debate as a stark choice between helping Russia and abandoning it, and shifting the focus to another emotional campaign sound bite: "We're safer now, aren...
...there's a business plan in Silicon Valley. All it takes to launch the next Internet giant is a neat idea, a few connections and a lot of luck. Palo Alto even has its own Spago, where venture capitalists have become the Harvey Weinsteins and the pitches sound like "It's FogDog meets AskJeeves." Entrepreneurs even have their own snooty publicists. The agents will arrive shortly...
...like I don't fit in anywhere," he says. He insists that his role will always be cartographer of the murkier depths of the mind. "I'll always feel a passion for what's behind the door." And he remains a trenchant critic of the record business and the "sound-alike, look-alike meaningless music" that rules today's pop but saps its relevance. He has bigger targets too: America's gun culture and the finger pointing of Washington moralists who blamed musicians for the Columbine massacre, which he blasts as "scapegoating" and "blurring the world of reality and fantasy...
...defense, opportunities for disgraceful behavior were limited by circumstances beyond our control. There weren't any shooting wars to slither out of. The term recreational drugs--a term that was invented to make what privileged people do sound less depraved than it would if it were done by poor people--had not been coined. The sort of state lawbreaking that Fifties Guys were associated with was underage drinking. The sort of federal lawbreaking that Fifties Guys were associated with was underage drinking with a fake draft card. Reading about the recent accusations against George W. Bush, I could imagine...