Word: staines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Death in the movies is usually swift and merciful. A gun goes off, and someone's brains are splattered Pollock-like across a wall. Or a blue steel blade flashes in the night, and someone is left crumpled on the carpet, surrounded by a spreading crimson stain. Or an asteroid strikes Earth, and hundreds of colorful New Yorkers are crushed by the Chrysler Building. Sigh. We should all die so crisply and photogenically...
...investing in the political repression of the Ogoni people, Harvard weakens its educational mission and contributes to social regression. I ask the Corporation to remove this ugly stain from our intellectual community and our legacy, to wash our hands of the deplorable execution of the modern hero Ken Saro-Wiwa and to divest all $34 million from Shell...
...growing ease of spreading dirt is only half the "death of privacy" nightmare that the Lewinsky scandal has stirred up. The other half is the growing difficulty of hiding dirt. Why, when I was a boy, a semen stain was just a semen stain. Now it's a signature. When I was a boy, an intern's girl talk evaporated into the ether. Now it crystallizes in cyberspace as e-mail...
...that came to be called fusion. Known today as smooth jazz, or as "that crap they play when Regis and Kathie Lee go to commercial," fusion continues to thrive; it even has its own Billboard chart. But in more sober musical circles, it is considered a kind of moral stain...
Even Clinton's special status as a relentlessly scrutinized public figure doesn't excuse, in the minds of the tough guys, his blundering and blubbering. Though most men don't have special prosecutors analyzing the DNA of every lipstick stain they stumble home with, and though most men's houses don't contain a press room, most men do have far more stringent monitors: their wives and girlfriends. What's more, most men's wives are considerably more intuitive than Hillary Clinton, whom presidential spinners portray as perhaps the last voting-age American to realize that Bill's late nights...