Word: spate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closest bunch of roommates at Harvard. It might be better, then, to think of our arguments as dialogues. Or even better, dialogues of friendship. (Does that somehow ring a bell?) To give you an idea of what I mean, here's an excerpt from our most recent spate of angry, but friendly words...
...appears, are most Americans. Bingeing on a diet of local news stories that graphically depict crime invading once safe ports -- schools, restaurants, courtrooms, homes, libraries -- Americans are rapidly coming to regard the summer of '93 as a season in hell. Indeed, a spate of events in the past two weeks seemed to argue that no one and no place was immune, not a respected schoolteacher living in a small town in Texas, not even the father of a megastar athlete driving a car down the highway...
...Fugitive is only the latest of a recent spate of movies that are based on a very specific type of TV show: the ones that baby boomers watched in the '60s as kids and that then became classics of camp popular culture, seen everywhere in reruns. Is the logical conclusion of all this that someone will make a movie of The Beverly Hillbillies...
...courts have ruled that the police are not obligate to protect the public, and the police have often been unable to do so. The Los Angeles riot, the murder of a Norwegian student at M.I.T. and the recent spate of violent "stalking" crimes against women in Massachusetts all show that the police are stretched thin in this era of tight budgets and increasing drug-related violence. We Harvard students are fortunate to have two effective police departments patrolling the campus...
...reporters, this spate of confessions is proof that the system of self- regulation works -- proof that a combination of conscience and competition keeps the press honest. Gartner's acting successor, Don Browne, even argues that NBC's pain is resulting in moral renewal in newsrooms around the country. Says Browne: "Journalism will not be diminished but strengthened. Because we made one mistake on Dateline NBC, hundreds of mistakes will not be made elsewhere." News consumers may be somewhat more skeptical and wonder if journalism has any rules at all. The honest answer: not really...