Word: whacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kamil: I think there is something in effect called the "coolness paradigm." And unfortunately, at this school, it is something we all agree is totally whack: the Grille. There is a sense of what is cool and what is not cool... I mean...
...when you're more concerned about your hair dripping than your thighs jiggling, you'll know that your priorities are so far out of whack that you've broken into Southern California's gym culture. Welcome to the jungle...
...Drugged out comparisons aside, the glimpses of this show most people on campus have caught have been less about wacky weed and more about whack. You can't have missed Tuesday's and Wednesday's staged Last Supper in front of the Science Center. Publicity has been quite a point of contention for the show. Although now the campus is inundated with the slick, black, official posters for the show, the previous weeks' many teasers took on the Stations of the Cross, Harvard-style, making anyone walking around campus an unwitting pilgrim on a very postmodern Via Dolorosa...
Last night my daughter woke up at 4 a.m. in high spirits and yelled at us until we took her downstairs to the kitchen. She dug into her toy basket and got out her favorite doll, which laughs when you whack it, a perverse invention indeed. My daughter walked the floor with this doll, as if trying to put it to sleep, and my wife and I sat like a couple of refugees and thought blank thoughts and longed for our bed. And then my wife went upstairs and discovered...
...question is based in a country where capital is flying out of the country at hyper-speed and allegations of kickbacks and corruption permeate the government all the way to the office of President Boris Yeltsin. Those suspicions have led to speculation that Yeltsin's ongoing game of Whack-a-Mole with his cabinet is an attempt to ensure that a friendly, non-prosecutorial government will succeed him. So far, there are no allegations of wrongdoing by the Bank of New York, but the institution has suspended two executives believed to be connected to the case. One of them, Lucy...