Word: spew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nobody likes a bad review, but publications cannot be expected to spew out nothing but praise for all theatrical endeavors. Speaking for myself, and judging by the comments of my peers, the main complaints against The Crimson are not the negativism of some reviews, but the unfortunate tendency of The Crimson to publish incomplete and incorrect information, and to write reviews as if by formula...
...stored, the Pentagon will try out prototype weapons designed to "defeat nuclear-biological-chemical threats before they can be used," as a 1995 report phrased it. One penetrating warhead burrows through earth and concrete before detonating; an incendiary warhead burns up biological and chemical agents before they can spew poison into the atmosphere...
...need to get out of Harvard Square for a bit. Even a couple hours of respite will do wonders for your mind and body and give you a chance to clean out the soot from your lungs (I know Cambridge isn't L.A. but those old MBTA buses spew out their fair share of poisonous fumes). By getting out I don't mean taking the subway to the Porter Square shopping mall but going somewhere where there's open land, fresh air and a slower pace of life...
...snob about all things British who calls the Chinese "Chinky-Chonks" and tells her host at a Chinese restaurant, "Nothing personal, but we don't touch Chinese food. Never did. All the grease, all the glue. And it's always so wet. Makes me want to spew." Bunt, for his part, is a pathetic mama's boy who can find release and some measure of independence only with Hong Kong bar girls, "the happy hello-goodbye of urgent sex." Hung, the avatar of the new Hong Kong order, is a brute: "Brandy was gleaming on Mr. Hung's lips...
After the ash, some volcanoes produce what is known as a pyroclastic flow, a ground-hugging cloud of superheated gas and rock that forces a cushion of air down the mountainside at up to 100 m.p.h., incinerating anything in its path. Other mountains spew that signature substance of the volcano: lava. (On this point Dante's Peak was wide of the scientific mark, concocting a fictitious mountain that produces both substances.) Lava moves at speeds ranging from less than 1 m.p.h. to 60 m.p.h...