Word: devoured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some stories are so deeply embedded in a culture that like black holes, they have the power to overwhelm and devour lesser tales that stray into their fierce field of gravity. Tawana's narrative--a messy, lesser tale that in a society uncontaminated by race hate would have been universally dismissed as a hoax--merged with deeper American memories of race and rape and lynching (the mobs sometimes made up of white law officers). Tawana's lie claimed the prestige of tragic precedent and a legacy of sacred indignation. Tawana became indistinguishable in moral terms from, say, Emmett Till...
...year 2000, Metropolis shows plutocrats living in idle pleasure while workers slave away underground until a spectacular rebellion sets them free. This was reminiscent of H.G. Wells' 1895 dystopian fantasy, The Time Machine, in which a subhuman race called the Morlocks lives underground and emerges to devour the humans who live above...
There's also the hunger for having it all, a voracious desire to devour life--and food. Aside from the Mexican chow consumed during this late-afternoon interview, a solicitous valet furnishes Travolta with a box of chocolate ladyfingers, mere snacks "to tide him over" until dinner. Lunch can be an orgy of steamed lobster or an artery-choking beef Wellington. His sister Annie marvels at this "Vanderbilt" life-style, where 24-hour chefs cater to any food fantasy. Even during a marketing powwow for Primary Colors, Nichols recalls, "everyone brought along sandwiches except John, who was served four...
Searching for a "cherry waffle knit" to stave off the February chill? Dying for a "sky popover"? If you have a hearty appetite, you can devour pages of seemingly delectable delights--pages of the latest J. Crew catalog...
...that dividends are taxed as ordinary income, a marginal rate of up to 39.6%, while long-term stock gains are taxed as capital gains, a much lower rate of 20%. So it makes sense for companies to use their cash to buy back stock. Yes, a bear market could devour this strategy. But as long as the tax code clearly favors capital gains, dividends will dwindle--and nothing would make that plainer than a healthy blue chip wiping out its dividend altogether...