Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mostly I want to say that Jedediah Purdy is a funny name. And also that his argument that irony is poisoning our culture is really stupid. That's the kind of argument we ironists use. We also use idiot and scalawag. But ironically...
...that I've allowed Purdy his equal time as per the National Association of Columnists bylaws, I want to explain why irony is necessary, besides the fact that without it, I'm unemployable. First of all, irony is much more fun than earnestness. Earnestness is thanking God after scoring a touchdown, while irony is having 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Earnestness is what you hide behind when you have nothing to say. Unless you hide behind irony, which is much cooler...
Conventional wisdom is that there are some things people just won't buy online, and one of them is a sofa. "You want to sit on it, feel the fabric, see the color, make yourself comfortable for a while," says John Baugh, senior analyst at Wheat First Union in Richmond, Va. But venture capitalists don't seem to believe it. In six months they have poured $200 million into start-ups with names like Furniture.com and Living.com In July, Ethan Allen, the Danbury, Conn., firm that has furnished upper-middle-class American living rooms for 67 years, decided to buck...
...labor and in Iowa, he will not do anything to imperil his chances of taking back the House--which is why he is not squeezing hard on wavering members. "You've got to do what you need to get re-elected," the leader told one. "That's what I want the most." And Gephardt is working on a strategy in which his own goal is not tied to the outcome of the presidential campaign--putting money and muscle in close races where coattails won't save the Democrat...
...built up over those years of paying down mortgages. Lenders are willing--even eager--to advance you cash up to the full amount of that equity. And sometimes even more. Like millions of other homeowners who have taken up the offer, you can spend the money any way you want and take years to repay--at some of the cheapest interest rates you'll ever find, even after the Federal Reserve's latest hikes...