Word: damn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HAVING TAKEN a cursory glance at some of the 18-year-olds--children, really--who belong to Harvard's Class of '96, I'm damn glad I'm not a first-year again. But even if I were, I'd be damn glad at least that I'm male. For women far more than for men, there's danger of the sexual kind on campus these days...
...dealer; it was the trade he plied as a youth in Ohio gambling joints and later, for fun, in the casinos where he headlined. The hands are fast, the eyes dead. I deal the cards, you play 'em. I control your destiny and I don't give a damn...
...brought the Damn Yankees rock star on as a guest. And according to MTV News Director Dave Sirulnick, Nugent turned heads and won smiles from conventioneers "young, old, middle aged, middle young...
...protection of your gang while retaining all your old enemies, who don't stop to ask questions. Those who do manage to escape their gang while remaining in the neighborhood are often sucked back in by a confluence of raw fear and sheer necessity. "The pressure is just too damn strong," concedes Commander Robert Dart, who heads the Chicago police department's gang unit. "You can't be an island out there...
Arrested Development has an angry, urgent side too, as in the funky, up- tempo cut Fishin' 4 Religion, an attack on black religious leaders. Baptist churches, Speech complains, "don't do a damn thing to try to nurture,/ Brothers and sisters in the revolution./ Baptist teachers dying is the only solution./ Passiveness causes others to pass us by." The group goes further on Give a Man a Fish, a tune whose chorus rings with down-home gospel fervor. "Brothers wit their A.K.s and their 9-mms," Speech raps, "Need to learn how to correctly shoot them./ Save those rounds...