Word: throwaway
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...violence, of counterviolence from the government. There is a chastened air. A decade of almost amphetamine economic growth culminates in a recession that, although relatively mild in historical terms, has thrown the fear of wolves into the most resolutely buoyant consumer. Simultaneously, even the most heedless slob in a throwaway society begins to understand that his cans and bottles and poisoned gases are piling up in a fatal glut...
Novelist Atwood's quietly awful vision is summed up in a throwaway line. "Hunger is more basic than love," she murmurs in a bizarre aside. "Florence Nightingale was a cannibal." Amid the situation-comedy ordinariness of her life, Marian, the title character of The Edible Woman, suddenly finds herself in a very unfunny predicament. People are trying to eat her up. Her employers feed upon her energy, her fiance feeds upon her sexuality...
...quarterback Jim Chasey is 21 for 34 for two touchdowns and a 618 passing percentage. However, he has had plenty of time to throw and plenty of open receivers when he throws. Last year he played poorly against Harvard and clutched against Princeton, firing five interceptions as the Indians throwaway the Ivy League championship...
...Until last week, that is, when he brought home a six-pack of beer. "Please don't do that again," scolded Mrs. Helms. An instant teetotaler? No, Mrs. Helms is a founder of a Washington, D.C., antipollution group dedicated to (among other things) stamping out throwaway containers that do not decompose...
Most authors approach the subject of France inductively, offering, like a Parisian épicerie, small, spicy dabs of this and that so that the whole, though piquant, is rarely filling. In one sense, Sanche de Gramont writes in the same vein. Tidbits of throwaway intelligence pop to the surface of his book like croutons in a steaming onion soup. The word bourgeois first appeared (as burgensis) in a 1007 charter establishing the free city of Loches. As a result of Versailles banquets, Louis XIV's stomach was found at his death to be twice normal size. The French Foreign...