Word: ued
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even before the customary flocks of cars, vans and U-hauls began lining the Ivy gates, a dozen or so eager Yardlings waited anxiously nearby the official green and white striped room key tent...
...that I've exhausted the ideas/food metaphor, let's talk music. MC Hammer admitted that the "Dowmp, Da-Da-Dowmp, Da-Dowmp, Da-Dowmp" riff in "U Can't Touch This" was lifted from Rick James's "Super-freak," and gave credit where credit was due. But I could swear I've heard the first four notes of the riff in Falco's "Der Kommisar" and Paula Abdul's "Cold-Hearted Snake," too. Who's plagiarizing whom? How many possible notes and rhythms are there? Isn't copycatting inevitable...
...wonder publishers are so melancholy. "Soviet-U.S. confrontation as a genre is dead," says Viking editor Al Silverman. Adrian Zackheim, executive editor of Morrow, puts the situation in the absolute terms of a bumper sticker: "Espionage is over...
...commission also found that racist, sexist and homophobic statements appeared regularly in the messages officers typed to one another on their patrol-car computer systems. "I would love to drive down Slauson ((a black ( area)) with a flame thrower . . . We would have a barbecue," said one. "U won't believe this," said another. "That female call again said susp((ect)) returned . . . I'll check it out then I'm going to stick my baton...
...members of the E.C. altered course last week. President Bush hinted that he would recognize the republics, provided independence was achieved peacefully. In Europe, where public sympathy for the secessionists runs high, Germany made the sharpest U-turn. "Countries cannot be held together by tanks and force," said Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He warned Belgrade that an attack on Slovenia or Croatia could affect German economic aid to Yugoslavia, which last year totaled $550 million. Britain, France and Italy are also considering joining the Western swing toward recognition...