Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard gradually picked up its play through the second and third periods and began to match Union's grinding and banging. The extra rough stuff produced a total of 12 man-up situations, including a 54 second two-man advantage in the second for the Skating Dutchmen, which the Crimson killed rather easily...
...achieve this however, all embrace of any tradition of faith was utterly abandoned. Today, Harvard's only official religion is one of tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism. The "real stuff," that is, the original truths that opened the university to all and gave these three words moral force, are left to the students to seek, to find and to cherish...
Seinfeld parodied Peterman--the tribute, perhaps, of one insubstantial '90s style to another. Illusion is everything, self-deception is indispensable, and Peterman works behind a scrim of pastness, sometimes hilarious but curiously sweet nonetheless. Peterman sells interesting and fairly good-quality stuff (though he lately got caught in a crunch of high inventory, debt and cash-flow problems). The danger, of course, is that you may get the thing in the mail and try it on (a Sherlock Holmes hat or cape, say, or one of those flouncy, too-much-by-half fin-de-siecle velvet gowns: "We drank Veuve...
...Killer; Public Enemy challenged listeners to "fight the power." But many newer acts such as DMX and Master P are focused almost entirely on pathologies within the black community. They rap about shooting other blacks but almost never about challenging governmental authority or encouraging social activism. "The stuff today is not revolutionary," says Bob Law, vice president of programming at WWRL, a black talk-radio station in New York City. "It's just, 'Give me a piece of the action...
...hold. Consider: a few weeks ago, a mysterious bidder paid $3 million to the guy who auctioned off home-run ball No. 70. I don't mean to pick on Forneris. Giving up the baseball was an honorable gesture. And he did get some fame, a minivan and McGwire stuff worth maybe $5,000. But the way he gave away the ball dramatizes several personal-finance sins that we all commit...