Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman who used to dress Madonna--they're lame: they don't have sex (with each other or, it seems, anyone else). They work all the time. They believe in extraterrestrials. In real life, Mulder and Scully would be weirdos--bookish types with bad skin whom you avoid in the hallways...
...guilty as anyone. I recently spent most of a day furiously typing to an idiotic teenager with a risque handle (I think it was Scullyspants) that it's not at all implausible that Cancer Man (whom the studio calls Cigarette-Smoking Man, possibly to avoid offending tobacco companies--another hot Web debate) fathered several of the characters on the show, including Mulder himself. Being a hard-core "noromo" (parlance for "no romancer," someone who believes the show's UST, or unresolved sexual tension, is the key to its vitality), I have also flamed "shippers" ("relationshippers," those who want Mulder...
FREEWAY RIDE Give 'em a break. To help cars avoid local construction, Transportation chairman Bud Shuster wants drivers to travel toll free on the Penn. Turnpike in his district. $3 million...
When he was in high school, Eric Liu labored desperately not to be defined by his race. He made himself into a "Renaissance boy"--a wrestler and musician, prizewinning scientist and newspaper editor--all to avoid the stereotypes commonly affixed to young Asian-American males. As Liu writes in his new book, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker (Random House; 206 pages; $23), his effort to distinguish himself didn't always work: "In the eyes of some, I suppose, I was simply another Asian 'overachiever...
...really a hick at heart, the Square's attractions may not be your style. There are plenty of places just outside the area to avoid the urban scene...