Word: yawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shock waves really started spreading this spring. The NPTA had been weighing in against the record companies for a year before that, but their only response was a stereophonic yawn. The women of the P.M.R.C. fired off a strong letter to the Recording Industry Association of America, an organization whose most prominent responsibility is to certify record sales. They also arranged for an interdenominational minister named Jeff Ling ("I am to religion what a free agent is to football") to put on an audiovisual show of rock naughtiness in Washington in May. Capital movers and shakers shifted in their seats...
...explained dining etiquette thusly: if you like the food at someone's house, eat only as much as you want, for your smile will drive away any doubts of displeasure. If you dislike the food, eat it all and ask for seconds--even if you do the psychedelic yawn afterwards (mother prefers a different metaphor...
...just shoots the guns out of their hands. (Guns don't kill people; guns kill guns.) Rex, because he is a good guy, always wins. But the bad guys, because they are let off, always come back. Ad infinitam. It is Rex's karma. An endless circle. Yin-yang, Yawn...
...changes are in store. "This is just more rhetoric," said John McDonnell, a group vice president for the Electronic Industries Association. "Old habits will die hard," agreed Chairman Edson Spencer of Honeywell, the Minneapolis-based computer company. An American official based in Japan called Nakasone's speech a "big yawn...
...silent scream, says Johns Hopkins Neurobiologist David Bodian, doctors have no evidence that a twelve-week-old fetus can feel pain, though "there is a possibility of a reflex movement" in response to stimuli like surgical instruments. Hobbins suggests that the dramatic scream may have been a fetal yawn, because "the fetus spends lots of time with its mouth open." Indeed, he says, the gaping mouth in the blurry film may not have been a mouth at all, but the space between the fetal chin and chest...