Word: stuffs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...didn't have my best stuff today, and I haven't been feeling like myself all week," Birtwell said. "I didn't feel like I had any pop in my ball. Last week at Brown, I had to rely on junk, and today I threw a lot of changeups and tried to take something off my breaking ball...
...extremes of the social spectrum: jocks and outcasts. Even at the relatively well-integrated Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pa., it is not unheard of for the punks--who often sport black clothing, tattoos and spiky hair--to be taunted in the hallways. "They call 'em dirty, say stuff like 'Why don't you bathe?'" says a student. Often it is the athletes who dish out the abuse. Haakon Espeland, 14, switched out of Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton High, where he was one of the "freaks." The reason he fled: a stream of abuse, starting on his first...
...They wore the same thing every day--black coats, stuff like that." --A student at Columbine High School...
Fifty years ago, movies were homogenous, meant to appeal to the whole family. Now pop culture has been Balkanized; it is full of niches, with different groups watching and playing their own things. And big movies, the ones that grab $20 million on their first weekend, are guy stuff. Young males consume violent movies, in part, for the same reason they groove to outlaw music: because their parents can't understand it--or stand it. To kids, an R rating for violence is like the Parental Advisory on CDs: a Good Housebreaking Seal of Approval...
...Buzz Selling to these very different groups may be, well, tricky, but the filmmakers say they have included jokes for everyone--subtle references for history buffs and more obvious stuff for those who think Woodward & Bernstein were the stars of Perfect Strangers...