Word: bummers
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...cheer when, say, Baroness von Blixen contracts syphilis in Out of Africa. Or when you come home from the war scenes in 1990's Havana and then watch Marines on the news spending Christmas in the Saudi desert before bombing Iraq. And Nixon, like Nixon, was kind of a bummer...
...went and saw a bunch of doctors, and basically they told me I needed surgery, and wouldn't be able to play the season," Clemente said. "It was kind of a bummer. I found a doctor in New York City who told me if I could play through it, I just might be able...
...Bush started to look acceptably reliable, the naturally Republican instincts of Street types took over. Price controls for pharmaceuticals? Big Bad HMOs? Rats in the barn? As a New Democrat Gore could be counted on to be sensible about these things; as an angry populist, he was a real bummer...
...years, casting the sort of wide statistical net that hardheaded academics favor and Wallerstein eschews as too impersonal. While Amato agrees with her about divorce's "sleeper effect" on children--the problems that crop up only after they're grown--he finds her work a bit of a bummer. "It's a dismal kind of picture that she paints," he says. "What most of the large-scale, more scientific research shows is that although growing up in a divorced family elevates the risk for certain kinds of problems, it by no means dooms children to having a terrible life...
Pretty soon, though, that won't be enough. And that's the one, colossal bummer about this new digital democracy: you probably need more money than ever just to tell people where to find you. The only way the do-it-yourselfers can get themselves noticed when they're up against the giant marketing power of the studios is through viral marketing--which works if your stuff gets people so excited that they e-mail it to two friends, who each in turn e-mail it to two friends, who each e-mail it to two more friends. This works...