Word: customs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered grotesque customs. I am stunned to see my well-intended purpose maliciously distorted by ill-intended elements who use my words to fit a false, ugly, obsolete and well-organized anti-Catholic propaganda which tries to present the Vietnamese people as an innocent Buddhist majority under a cruel dictatorship...
...surprisingly, Tower Records has also spread its abundant financial resources into non-audio products and services. It is now possible to rent videotapes from Tower, as well as to buy new releases at the priced-for-rental tag of $100. Other products include custom mailboxes, hemp necklaces, tiny pouches of "Zodiac Essence" and "Hello Kitty" pencil boxes...
...engraved mirrorquietly requests "no gambling, no cussing, nospitting," while fake plants swing in ceilingbaskets along the windows. Every inch of wallspace is covered by something which was almostcertainly obtained for free, including thethoroughly-crooked set of house cues. Theexception is the back wall; this surface iscovered by a custom-made mural which clearly datesfrom an era long past. In the foreground, thepainting crudely depicts a scene from "TheHustler," with vaguely recognizable likenesses ofJackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats and Paul Newman'sEddie Felsin. At the middle table in the painting,three ruddy-faced Irish fellows contemplatesinking the eight-ball...
...stoked the brand loyalty of more than 10,000 students. Apple peddles the eMate, a laptop created in 1996 specifically for kiddie consumers, which goes for $650. NetSchools, a company based in Mountain View, Calif., started up last year to sell one product: a $1,600 portable computer custom-built for students that comes with an infrared connection to the school's computer network, a water-resistant keyboard and a built-in security device. That's an expense still too great for many cash-strapped districts. "Schools that bought into the earlier generation of technology are stuck," says Cuban...
...happens to the best of us: the realization that, academically, you are in over your head. I remember it happening to me when I signed up for an advanced physics course in high school without ever taking ordinary physics, as I followed my school's overeager custom of taking advanced courses without their prerequisites. Perhaps you are familiar with the feeling. You walk into the room on the first day of class, thinking, "Well, I've never taken a real math or science class before, but hey, I'm here to learn." As you take your seat, listening to your...