Word: spit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really, it's perfectly normal. They're bored, maybe a little lonely, so they throw a stranger into a fence, kick him a few times, and spit in his face. It's nothing that doesn't happen every day at Alcatraz...
...script like this should be a push-over for any cast. Just spit it out and you can't go wrong. But this cast seems unable to do just that. They're slow on their cues and in their delivery. Attempting to read meaning into lines that don't have any is a trying exercise for cast and audience alike. Mamet's quips must rattle out like an artillery barrage, not like languid dinnertime conversation...
...flickers of light caused by MACHOs amid the flashes from thousands of naturally pulsating stars that regularly switch from dim to bright and back again. After nearly 2 million individual observations that yielded just one dubious MACHO, Griest's group was ready to give up. Then, unexpectedly, the computer spit out what he calls "a beautiful event." After Griest and his colleagues had raised and ruled out phenomena that might be tricking them, they were ready to unveil their MACHO...
...desktop publishers, are what people used to produce books and newspapers before the invention of the Laserwriter. At Garfield, we would send our files through a large series of cables and buffers to a machine about the size of a refrigerator turned over on its side. The machine would spit out neatly typeset copy onto a canister of photographic paper, which we would then feed through a developer and hang up to dry. At least, that's how it was supposed to work. But typesetters are not as simple as Laserwriters, and whatever could go wrong usually...
...greater importance than the politics, of course, is the impact. As with other bills that get chewed up and spit out by the legislative machinery, this one is not expected by criminologists to have a stunning effect on crime. Though most Americans support capital punishment (77% in the TIME/CNN poll), * many crime experts challenge its usefulness for anything other than pure retribution. The problem, they argue, is that the fastest growth in violent crime is occurring among teenagers -- from 1986 to 1991, murders committed by teens ages 14 to 17 grew by 124%, while among adults 25 and over, murder...