Word: swears
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...woman decide to conduct an experiment. To decide which sex is least faithful, several men and women are raised in total isolation from everyone but their caretakers—and then let loose in the outdoors. The human subjects eventually pair off and swear undying love to their partners. But there is soon trouble in paradise. When two irrepressibly vain women meet, they cannot help but fight over who is the fairer. And when their lovers finally see other women, everything begins to fall apart...
...Feet Under, for instance, characters talk around their feelings and leave you to infer their real meaning, like people in good novels (and real life). On most network dramas, people talk like they do, well, on TV: they say exactly what they're thinking and have crystal-clear motives. Swear words and skin rarely cost viewers or ad revenue anymore, but complex stories and strong points of view are polarizing. Love-'em-or-hate-'em shows fit HBO's business model: the gleefully misanthropic Curb Your Enthusiasm is a hit for HBO because a few million people like it intensely...
Meanwhile, a lot of effort has gone into figuring out how to replace damaged cartilage. Many arthritis sufferers swear by the dietary supplements glucosamine and chondroitin. Preliminary studies suggest that they may relieve pain, but the jury's still out on whether they actually promote the growth of new cartilage. The first approved biotech cartilage implants have hit the inevitable stalemate: once the new cartilage is in place, it's subject to the same destructive forces that chewed up the original cartilage. In addition, transplanted cartilage does not seem to adhere very well to existing tissue, though researchers are trying...
...THEY PROBABLY DON'T EVEN SWEAR...
...search of foreshadowing--the spookier the better. For instance, when Jeff Buckley, who walked into the Mississippi River one evening and never walked out, sang, "This is our last goodbye," he must have known he had a watery grave in his future, right? And when Kurt Cobain growled, "I swear that I don't have a gun," he was just being gruesomely ironic...