Word: spitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, the fat lady sang, and it's over. When Roseanne Barr screeched an off- key version of the national anthem, scratched her groin and spit at a ball game recently, she crossed the line between comedy and crudity. For an emerging group of female laugh getters, grossing out audiences is left to the likes of Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison. Coven-like hairstyles are passe; so are Elizabeth Taylor fat jokes, delivered Uzi-style a la Joan Rivers, and the kind of masochistic self-deprecation that kept Phyllis Diller in face-lifts for two decades. The freshest funnywomen...
...caption and sequence of photographs clearly imply that I was attempting to warp the psyche of the youthful audience member for whom I was playing. You have portrayed me as a terrorizer of children; in specific, a malicious tormentor of little boys. Thanks to your picture, community members spit on me as they pass and parents warn their children away from...
Rameau's nephew really wants to have his cake and spit...
...children take delight in things that grownups find gross? While most adults just sit and ponder this question, a few entrepreneurs cannily exploit it. Just in time for the back-to-school season, for example, is Spit-Wads, a synthetic "tossing dough." The sticky substance, thrown by hand rather than propelled through a straw, was invented by oil-refinery worker Ted Skup. "We got the idea at lunchtime. We were talking about the Pet Rock and things we could sell about $20 million worth of, and it just popped into my head." Skup and a partner started IQCO Inc., which...
...racial rhetoric. In the primary battle between black former Federal Judge Alcee Hastings and ex-Ku Klux Klan leader John Paul Rogers to be Florida's secretary of state, Hastings got a laugh last month by quipping, "If ((Rogers)) doesn't burn crosses in my neighborhood, I won't spit watermelon seeds in his." If Rogers had made the vow in reverse, he would have been accused of bigotry...