Word: spew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Thomas Wolfe, writes like William Faulkner and carries around with him in a cardboard box the burden of his dreams: a thousand-page manuscript and a bottle of booze. It is hard to say whether the other students (Peggity Price, Jane Connell) are more appalled by the erotic spew of language in Bufford's work or by the way their teacher reaches across the barriers of age, sex and class to acknowledge the right of great gifts to wrap themselves in socially unappetizing forms. What one can say is that her act of commitment to another committed writer...
Most of the other characters--a brightly-dressed flutter of engaged, soon-to-be-engaged, and married couples--alternate between stiffness and competence, depending on how much artificial language their characters spew out. The ones intended to be irritating (Curt Raffi and Jennifer Burton) achieve a bit more success in such instances than the ones who are merely sweet (David Angel and Laurence Bouvard), but this, too, is only partly blameable on the actors. Children in bright dresses, tuneful incidental music by Brooks Whitehouse, and lederhosen all around contribute to the impression of a light and pleasant entertainment, the "comedy...
What is it about Nastassia Kinski that makes journalists babble like half-baked poets? You spew out this "child-woman, woman-child" hogwash as if it were a controversy important enough to be given more than a passing thought...
...most students are self-centered and uninterested in making long-term changes in the University or society at large. Campus meetings are called to announce anti-nuclear arms petitions or defend draft registration evaders, but the excitement passes quickly, affecting only a tiny minority of undergraduates. The proud organizers spew out their own lack of impact. At The Crimson, where editorial commentary is considered a gravely serious duty, our positions often boast high idealism without any sense of responsibility for outlining new paths of action. Repetition of the house ideology yields stale analysis, truisms, and inaccuracies...
...forthcoming. Not a few Americans doubt the value of centralized economic planning. Others see alarming implications in the proposals for compulsory national service heard from many of these young moderates. But as the edifice of Reaganism totters on the verge of intellectual collapse, and Democratic party elders continue to spew out the old rhetoric, the neoliberals offer the single serious alternative. The Administration's economic policies may be sufficient to give victories to Democrats in 1982. But if the Democrats fall back on New Dealcum-Edward M. Kennedy-business-as-usual, election gains will yield just another chapter...