Word: worthless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gays. At The Crimson, our sensitivity has been challenged. Shortly after we had begun publishing last spring, the first complaints set in. For a What Is to Be Done issue on Black History Month, we profiled a Black playwright who considers the Black contribution to history to be largely worthless...
...contributing members of society undoubtedly responded "Francis Bacon" without a moment's hesitation, for you are well schooled in the essential tidbits of information that bind our great nation together. Of course, when it comes to specific knowledge we should all share, the majority of us are illiterate, basically worthless and perfect examples of why America is plummeting into an educational abyss...
Such sentiments are not completely worthless. They remind us that the freedoms we enjoy--speech, press, religion--have their price. But for Reagan to suggest that children will gain a greater appreciation for America by studying such battlefield triumphs is ludicrous. America is not about aggression and war--it is about values such as liberty equality and democracy...
...very macho kind of ethic was simply modified in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary way," he says. "We're representing people who everyone else calls `less than worthless.' We few, we happy few, we hang together...
...movie spoofs everything possible. The hospital is called "Our Lady of the Worthless Miracles." Condoms are called "Titans" (not Trojans) and are slightly larger than usual. And while some film comedies are content to have someone note that the food in their refrigerator is so old it could walk on its own, in Naked Gun, the food actually does make its way across the top of a refrigerator. But since the movie is spoofing TV rather than the movies, it lacks the more ambitious structure and plot that the Airport movies provided for Airplane...