Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bass can laugh at himself. His linking of oil with eons-old oceans may be the stuff of poetry, but how about oil and Coke? The author, preoccupied with the earth's dwindling oil reserves, was aghast to learn four years ago that his personal fuel was also in peril. When the Coca-Cola Co. announced a new formula for Coke, he began buying up crates of the old stuff. "The world is so thirsty for oil, uses so, so much. We are down to the last thousand Cokes," he mourned. Of course, Coke got a reprieve. That seems unlikely...
...welcome quickly ran out. Friedman maintains that Israel's hidden agenda -- wiping out Palestinian agitation once and for all and playing midwife to a friendly or at least neutral government in Lebanon -- was the stuff of fantasy. The dispersal of their leadership would not stifle Palestinians' aspirations; and there was no force in splintered Lebanon capable of uniting the country...
Husbands are a favorite topic. A fiftyish front-row regular complains that her husband does the grocery shopping (the most hated activity) every Saturday morning but says that he buys all the wrong stuff. She has to go back to the market all week long. The women agree: husbands don't know how to shop...
...Bush cruising along at 63% approval at a point when the presidential honeymoon usually comes to an end and a slide begins. Pundits have called this a "second honeymoon" and "Teflon II." Neither seems quite right since we now know that Bush takes showers with his dog -- hardly the stuff of romance...
...Month label. "I have the same problem with stardom that I have with royalty," he says. "They're judged not by the quality of their ideas but by their birthright. I didn't set out to be a star. If you do, you engage in manipulation. You do stuff to be liked. I didn't want to be endorsed; I wanted to be listened to. I had ideas about things...