Word: babylonian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Babylonian backslapping fest that is the Academy Awards has passed again, and 43 people have fetching new doorstops. But after every Oscar ceremony there are folks who won whether or not they took a little gold guy home. People like Peter Fonda. His nomination coincided with the release of his memoir Don't Tell Dad, neatly rescuing it from another-bygone-celebrity-spills-his-guts status. And HELEN HUNT'S agent. Two Emmys and an Oscar really help in renegotiating your client's sitcom contract. Then there's CHER. Just when folks were thinking of her as the late Congressman...
...Grolier and Starr, any other bookstore (conventional or no) in Harvard Square would be anticlimactic, but Schoenhof's Foreign Books really disappoints. Its bright blue carpet and uniformly shiny particle board shelves scream expense. To its credit, it does stock books in languages ranging from French to Cornish and Babylonian. Unfortunately, at Harvard, the romance of the other is often translated into pretension rather than unconventionality. As Elizabeth C. Oelsner '00, who spends entirely too much time in the Schoenhof's building, comments, "Foreign books are nicer. They're pretty. They're small. They're expensive," none of which adjectives...
...reason should The Tasty, that cramped, grease-ridden snack shop, be allowed to remain in fair Harvard Square. In fact, the entire corner presents an architectural eyesore. Age alone does not justify continued existence; no one makes scenic monuments to bawdy Babylonian bordellos. True, Harvard Square needs a 24-hour restaurant, but the Tasty is not the answer...
...Idaho, glimpses signs of the "mark of the beast" from Revelations in government fiscal policy. He shares a widespread fear among Christian patriots that bodily implanted microchips will replace cash, ultimately spelling slavery for ordinary Americans. Vicki and Randall Weaver had visions of an apocalypse brought on by a Babylonian Federal Government, or ZOG (Zionist-Occupied Government). The apocalypse that came to their Idaho mountaintop in 1992--over flimsy gun charges against Randall--is one the Weavers surely helped bring on. But when an FBI sharpshooter killed Vicki Weaver as she held her baby in her arms, it gave...
Leafing through the Babylonian Talmud recently--you know, that famously racist, sexist and God only knows what else Aramaic magnum opus--I came across this timely meditation: "A court which sentences to death one person every 70 years is deemed blood-thirsty...