Word: basic
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...that rich kids have alcoholic parents too. While the assertion was certainly awkward, the "rich kids" I know with alcoholic parents might not find the situation as funny as he does. There are people who believe that money is an effective buffer against suffering, and on the most basic level of comfortable subsistence, they are correct. But to think that money acts as a buffer for all pain is a simplistic and materialist notion that only reinforces classist myths...
...Basic Wisdom...
...Douglas firs in the town of Twin Peaks, a fresh breeze seemed to be blowing across the TV landscape last spring. The success of David Lynch's wild-at-heart soap opera forced network executives to make a fast reassessment. Twin Peaks defied some of TV's most basic dramatic rules -- it was too murky, too slow moving, too coy about solving its mystery -- yet it attracted a fanatically devoted audience. Viewers, it seemed, were a lot more willing to sample unusual, challenging fare than anyone had expected. Just as All in the Family launched a trend toward taboo-breaking...
...treat what you do as an intellectual exercise when the mere mention of a disease brings to your mind the faces of people you care about. That's why it's important to have a certain percentage of people working in this field who are comfortable with both basic science and clinical medicine. If we don't, we are going to miss out on opportunities to apply this new information...
...York? Also to cause aggravation, this time by taking up a lot of curb space with diplomatic-plates-only parking zones. In the minds of true New Yorkers, an awful lot that happens in the world happens to cause them aggravation. In fact, "aggravation," in that particular usage, is basically a New York word. I know there are people who think it's a Yiddish word -- nobody thinks it's an English word -- but a Yiddish word and a New York word are the same thing. It's true that you can detect an Italian bounce to some New York...