Word: tripe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adept at both broad slapstick and allusive puns and wordplay. She appeals to the peanut gallery with such items as Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, a wizard candy that means what it says on its package; it offers every flavor, ranging from chocolate and peppermint to liver and tripe and earwax. But Rowling also names the Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch, evidently hoping that a few adult readers will remember that Argus, in Greek mythology, was a watchman with eyes all over his body. And even if no one else picks up the reference, it's the sort of touch...
Hollywood just can't be trusted. A few weeks ago, we were positive that the Sandra Bullock comedy Forces of Nature would stand for years as the nadir of filmmaking. People would come out of some piece of tripe, shrug and say, "It wasn't as bad as Forces of Nature." Well, we were wrong; the bar just got lowered. The Mod Squad, based on the TV series that ran from 1968 to 1973, is a disaster you don't have to wait for to happen. It could be the capper segment in a Fox prime-time special...
...good place to lunch. The cafe's player piano will entertain small fry, and the food will please the grownups. True Toole aficionados will buy a hot dog on the street in homage to Reilly's brief, catastrophic career as a vendor of frankfurters made of "rubber, cereal, tripe. Who knows...
...have fun. A date takes only a couple of hours out of your day, usually on a night when you wouldn't have accomplished a damn thing anyway. Stimulating, real conversation can be yours, without ingesting the tripe that is spewed in your core sections. A real adventure in the streets may find you, rather than having to watch Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson on video...
...KISS-108, like all Boston radio stations, is a piece of tripe, All they do is play songs that I actively despise. All I do is listen to CD's and classical music because I'm so revolted by KISS-108. Celine Dion can kiss my grits...