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...game was the Crimson's last of 1992, and the victory helps slightly sweeten the sour taste of this season, boosting the Crimson to 4-10-2 overall...
Council leaders reject LaRock's claims, andsome dismiss them as the sour grapes of a failedcandidate...
...Among black juveniles, the murder arrest rate rose 145%, compared with 48% among whites. Police chiefs around the country point to another frightening trend: the increase in savage, senseless murders, the kind that occur over a scuffle in a school playground, a pair of sneakers, a romance gone sour. Like Anthony Knighton who pulled a gun in a squabble over a piece of change, many teenagers no longer use their fists or feet to settle disputes. Instead, they open fire...
...discovery in World War I that scientific advances had also produced better engines of death and destruction turned speculation about the future excessively sour. Bellamy's radiant city became the high-tech slave societies of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We and Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis. Aldous Huxley perfected the notion of dystopia in 1932 with Brave New World, and George Orwell weighed in with his haunting classic...
Little wonder that the campaign has produced a sour disenchantment with politicians, a pervasive sense of moral moonscape where authority ought to reign. Everyone in power lies, the current wisdom runs, and those who are caught lying either don't care or tell more lies in order to clear themselves...