Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...guess it's a nervous gesture from the days when my mother insisted on cutting my hair herself--taking special care that it looked really, really silly (of the "are you a boy or a girl" variety). I quickly became obsessed with my hair, intentionally messing it up to send a signal to all potential tormentors: Yeah, my hair is silly. Wanna make something...
...hairy, hostile, especially for a lad trying to fit his bucolic vision into the urban nightmare around him. Lynch says Eraserhead sprang fully formed from nights in that "crime- ridden" city. "My original image was of a man's head bouncing on the ground, being picked up by a boy and taken to a pencil factory. I don't know where it came from." Some movie folk didn't know where Eraserhead was going either; it was twice rejected by the New York Film Festival. Could it have been the picture's grim gray palette that put the festival...
...assault was one of the most boneheaded decisions ever made by a municipal authority -- Keystone Kops reinventing Vietnam as a minifarce in which a neighborhood is destroyed in order to save it. For Cudjoe, the big bang represents creation in the form of a mysterious survivor, a boy known as Simba Muntu (Lion Man) seen walking away from the burning wreckage. The search for Simba provides the novel with an open-ended structure that allows Wideman to display his talents...
...uncertain liberal experiment: "I was walking down the street with this cute little white coed, thinking we're minding our business, strolling to the cafeteria for a cup of coffee, and blam. Run right dead into the glass wall." To Wideman, the stares seemed to say "Wait a minute, boy . . . You still in the tube, nigger, and don't you forget...
Wise was the fair-haired boy of the S&L industry, responsible for targeting political contributions and praised for his audacious and inventive methods of attracting deposits. Then too, the thrift's biggest customers were major political contributors. Good donated at least $100,000 to the Republican Party in 1988 after defaulting on his huge Silverado loans. "Good walked away from tens of millions of dollars in financial obligations, leaving taxpayers to clean up the mess, but he could find $100,000 to buy influence with the Bush Administration," complained Colorado lawyer Carlos Lucero, a former Democratic candidate...