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These and more than 12,000 other nuances of meaning and pronunciation have prompted Lexicographer Stuart Berg Flexner, co-editor of the landmark Dictionary of American Slang and editor in chief of Random House's reference- book department, to proclaim Cassidy's work one of the "major publishing events of decades...
...used to try to figure out why they put us together, then we decided it was random," says Melissa B. Milgram '88, explaining that a casual comparison of forms with her roommate revealed no similarities...
...fact, one of the most difficult aspects of my summer jobs has been making myself laugh at horrible jokes. A random assortment of suicide notes would be far more amusing than anything I have heard. Although the majority of them are so ethnically and sexually offensive that even printing them would touch off a series of riots, it is possible to convey a little bit of their essence...
...Joseph Minion's script casts a representative of normality as the outsider, the avant-garde's lunatic fringe as the insiders. They may keep weird hours, embrace extraordinary life-styles and befuddling living arrangements, but they are a community. All the characters Paul thinks he is encountering at random turn out to be related in curious and startling ways. The random events through which he moves form a kind of rebus, telling him, "Keep out, square." And yet, of course, a great city's artists are the keepers of its deepest mysteries, and every citizen of spirit has risked...
...violence of today seems divorced from rationale and motive. The murders are mindless, random, indiscriminate. Young black men seem to be murdering one another with a malign indifference, killing with the casual air of Bruce Lee dispatching men in a kung fu movie. For some, it seems as if murder has become a kind of noxious fashion or wanton recreation. "Members of the new generation kill, maim and injure without reason or remorse," writes Silberman...