Word: scrapingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush isn't talking so gloomily because he's panicking. Greenspan hasn't let the U.S. economy so much as scrape its knee in a long, long time. The plane (sorry about changing that metaphor), which has been on a steep ascent all year, is leveling off as corrections in the markets provide a downdraft and the New Economy succumbs to a touch of jetlag. But we haven't crashed yet, and we jettisoned inflation fears over Lake Michigan sometime this fall...
...like Harry Bailey and Sam Wainwright--or even, God help us, like Mr. Potter, the wealthy, grasping banker of Bedford Falls. And no one here, no gov jock or pre-med or final club frequenter wants to be George Bailey. No one wants to suffer and sweat and barely scrape by, to give up youthful potential in favor of adult burdens, to sacrifice dreams on the altar of necessity. No one wants to be at the end of their rope on Christmas Eve, staring down into dark water and needing a little bit of divine intervention...
Everyone knows that in this country, if you have nothing, nobody wants to have anything to do with you, and if you have everything you could possibly want, people can't do enough for you. The rich are showered with lovely gifts; the poor scrape hard for bus fare. A Park Avenue divorce case is fought by platoons of talented lawyers; a man up for murder in Texas is represented by a clown in a green polyester suit. The hemorrhoids of the wealthy are treated like diamonds, while the poor lie gasping in hospital hallways. The guiding principle of American...
Most adults are embarrassed to admit anymore that they might find a movie or a song too much to stomach. They are not so complacent about their kids. The rough edges of pop culture scrape harder these days, and its most extravagant enchantments are promoted to ever younger kids. When your 10-year-old comes home singing "Bitch I'ma kill you"--Eminem again, in a Valentine to his mother--you don't care if you once adored Richard Pryor and William Burroughs. You turn into one of those angry swing voters...
...Most adults are embarrassed to admit anymore that they might find a movie or a song too much to stomach. They are not so complacent about their kids. The rough edges of pop culture scrape harder these days, and its most extravagant enchantments are promoted to ever younger kids. When your 10-year-old comes home singing "Bitch I'ma kill you" - Eminem again, in a Valentine to his mother - you don't care if you once adored Richard Pryor and William Burroughs. You turn into one of those angry swing voters...