Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest sadistic horror movie. But he doesn't know what to do with it. Instead of just isolating a disturbing tendency in pop culture, he is compelled to document it with suspicious statistics, to draw conspiratorial conclusions, to call for a return in spirit to the movies' puritanical Production Code of the 1930s -- all with the fervor of a modern Martin Luther, an angry evangelist determined to nail his 95 theses not on a church door but on a movie marquee. Problem is, he keeps hitting his thumb...
...would I fill out my study card? What was the catalogue code? What was the exam schedule? Was it a full or half course? Did it count for full credit...
...first track on the EP starts with a minute of static morse-code dashes which flicker in like a weak TV signal, then coagulate into a discrete pulse of white noise. An electronic church bell chimes in the distances. Then the whole soundscape explodes into a furious riot of 130-plus beat per-minute drums, thrash-synth and Trent Reznor's ragged vocals. The song zaps into silence four and a half minutes later...
According to signs placed on the restaurant, the Inspectional Services department has declared the building "unsafe" under state code...
Brown University, for example, updated their speech code to outlaw "intimidating speech" rather than "demeaning speech." It's unclear what that change represents...