Word: whips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inevitably, People look at me and others a little strangely when we whip out our new information managers, writing on the screen in its input language called Graffiti. When they next ask, with widened eyes, "What's that?" Tell 'em: The name's Pilot, PalmPilot...
Alan Simpson rose to the position of Republican whip before retiring from the Senate...
...matter how ridiculous the concept seems, we realize by the end of Wag the Dog that delusion of the masses on a grand scale is a brutally realistic possibility. The media has the power to whip up an emotional whirlwind so powerful that all of America gets trapped in the show. It is the concept, after all, that makes the disaster movies which studio execs love so deplorably viable. Audiences are bludgeoned with an onslaught of nifty special effects and pounded into submission. Who is to say politics is not the same...
Essentially, Lewis' argument is this: if a student is being followed by another (a peer, for example), universal key-card access will only serve to increase the risk of intrusion since the "stalker" can just whip out his universal access ID card. The problem with this argument? If a student is being stalked, there is no doubt that his or her being indoors is safer than being out; therefore, if universal key-card access were in place, the possible victim could escape indoors. There, he or she could reach out for help...
...Perry sings his guts out, as always. The most ferocious recording on the album, though, would have to be the live version of "Whores," a track from Jane's Triple X Records self-titled release. Spewing forth some of the most vitriolic vocals ever recorded, Perry and his cohorts whip a cyclone of slashing sound and fury...