Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before, and in a pattern familiar to most addicts had gradually been increasing his consumption until he was ingesting nearly fatal doses. Desperate to stop, he had had elective heart surgery, reasoning that nobody would be insane enough to do cocaine while recovering from heart surgery. Jay was doing blow within two weeks of his operation...
Jeff Koons' Rabbit (1986), a blow-up bunny cast in mirror-bright steel, is plunked down center stage, surrounded by works that date from the Wall Street boom of the '80s. Its cartoonish exterior basks in the shiny glare of its obviousness: here is our post-Pop world--little else than the distorted reflection of commerce, all chrome and gaudy light. And as you approach it, you too are caught in its surface: carnival-like and bloated, staring...
...back into class fairly soon, they will in all likelihood become permanent dropouts--which, for young black men, often translates into a one-way ticket to jail. They obviously ought to be disciplined for taking part in the fight, but not more severely than the student who threatened to blow up a Decatur high school last summer and was expelled for only a year...
...HAVEN, C.T.-The Harvard defense has had a series of crushing last minute collapses this season, and Yale senior quarterback Joe Walland added one final blow to the Crimson's misery...
...modern Bond world, everything must turn on fancy gizmos, fancier gizmos to counteract the original fancy gizmos, and if there's time, some more fancy gizmos, all of which have been concocted for the express purpose of being featured in fancy action sequences. And everything must not only blow up but cause the ubiquitous gasoline barrels which litter the landscape to blow up as well, for good measure. Because everything is bogged down in this paradigm, the sequences are unimaginatively staged and disjointedly shot. Everything is strictly for its own sake; nothing is simple...