Word: nah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nah. We all begin chattering at once: American society in the late '90s is a busy chat room set up for just this kind of thing (Oklahoma City, O.J.), with noisy experts on tap, interrupting one another from different quadrants of the screen. We round up the usual suspects--in the current case, our cretinous popular culture; the Internet, with its rancid cul-de-sacs; violent movies; idiot television; vicious rap; ubiquitous sex. One high school counselor cast a wide net on MSNBC: "It's all those things, ekcedra, ekcedra, ekcedra." The "ekcedra" includes adolescence itself, a form of temporary...
...least one Clinton as the newsmaker de la semaine. Readers cried uncle long ago, begging us to give them a break. No such luck. But considering that those stories generated more than 27,000 letters over the same years, we think we've seen our share of retaliatory thrusts. Nah, we know we have...
...points a finger at Chili Palmer, pulls a pretend trigger and growls, "Bang, you dead. But you don't know when, do you?" Nah, but Chili stays cool. Always. The hero of Get Shorty, once a loan shark, now a film producer, here gets involved in the pop-music biz, a field of endeavor that lacks the dignity of finance but is rich in crooks, babes and crooked babes. The balderdash that follows is nonsense of the highest quality. It proves both to scolds who think that funk, grunge and rap and the rest are rhythmic vomiting, and to those...
...former S.L.O.C. and bid-team members who have admitted to the payments have had a harder time admitting to wrongdoing. Their attitude is, "Quid pro quo? Nah--we're humanitarians." Thomas Welch, the leader of the bid and organizing committees who resigned after pleading no contest to a spousal-abuse charge in 1997, told the Salt Lake Tribune he and other boosters did nothing wrong in their pursuit of Olympic glory. "Never, not once in all that time, seven years, did an I.O.C. member offer a vote for money," he insisted. "I never offered anything to get anyone to vote...
...lobbyists. Why does he think Congressmen point fingers when they have secrets of their own? "It's a form of grandiosity," says Hilton. "They tend to think they'll never get caught." Is he worried that an angry Congressman might sue him after the book comes out? Nah: "Truth is a defense." Besides, he adds, "I'm a litigator...