Word: worded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afternoon's performance was based on questions from the audience. Whoopi's answers were candid in thought and presentation, with no concern for "presentable" language. Amusing most and offending some, she raged and praised with profanities proclaiming that a word should not hold you back, that some words hold no power...
...answers to a question on race, see page 125 of Book: "Rosa Parks did not sit on that bus so that I could put something in front of the word American." John F. Kennedy reigns in Chapter 13; he also appeared in her speech about the importance of the individual. "Prove to me it is not mine," she responded to a question of how to feel that America belongs...
Moore's style takes some getting used to. Experimentation within the medium is the name of the game here, and the author seems to enjoy tossing out symbols for their own sake, creating linguistic tricks, and taking flat-out risks--at once point, the word "Ha!" is repeated without interruption over nearly two entire pages. But this Joycean wordplay, disconcerting at first, eventually becomes clear for what it usually is--humor. And that's where the stories get their power. On a surface level, they're a series of often depressing vignettes about dissatisfied, disillusioned adults, but underneath...
...total devotion to shorts culture, the hard core will persevere. Total fanatics like Averell and Denham will bare souls and legs to demonstrate their unfailing allegiance to the categorical superiority of shorts over pants. Keep in mind, however, that Mother Nature rules almighty and often she has one word for fate-tempters: frostbite...
...flag him down. And I must say the guy carrying the skewer of little impaled chicken hearts never did make it to our table--which was hardly cause for lament for me, although conesseiurs say chicken hearts are one of the more delectable organs. I'll take their word...