Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father's status has so declined that mental-health experts speak of a new male affliction: kitaku kyofu sho, or a "fear of returning home syndrome." A popular television commercial for an insecticide spray shows a father waking up one day to find he has turned into a cockroach. The ad warns housewives, "If you see a large cockroach, it might be your husband. Please check before you exterminate." Even men will sometimes admit that their privileged status in society isn't all roses. "Women know how to enjoy themselves more than men do," says a mid-level executive...
...Nothing now remains but the knowledge to those who saw them that these vile and perverted symbols are there beneath a spray of paint," said Young in the letter...
Executors of the King's estate have licensed the sale of a new Presley spray cologne that will retail at $19.50. No, it doesn't smell like a sweaty towel or a blue suede shoe; the scent is described as a "contemporary, masculine blend of woods, herbs and amber." Read: a good-ole-boy's Old Spice...
...over the far fence. Watch, and wince, as Dave Henderson or Carney Lansford gets the clutch hit. Scan the depth of the A's bench; almost any scrub could start on another team. Note the new recruits, just in time for the big games: slugger Harold Baines and spray hitter Willie McGee, an N.L. import who may win that league's batting title...
...These symbols are used in satanic rituals, however, if you start looking around area, you may see them spray painted or drawn on walls, bridges and sidewalks," the list's introduction warns. "The frequency in sightings of such symbols is a strong indication of the influence the occult is having in our society...