Word: stuff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parents objected to the notion of my becoming part of a laboratory experiment. It was not until this point, finally, that I realized what had been bothering me all along was not the fear of my parents' anger, but my own fear of involving myself in this stuff...
...chance you are lucky enough to find a store that is open, other skills come into play. Grocery checkouts involve a race against time: the checker shovels your purchases toward you while you try to stuff them into a bag. Don't forget your market basket either, else you'll have to buy a plastic bag -- or several, since each sack only holds approximately 2.3 items. Meanwhile, the people in line behind you start to grumble and push...
Cruise goes on to prove to himself, rival (who is supposed to be a) teammate pilot/driver, and everyone else that he has the right stuff by winning big dogfight/race...
...past three days, photocopied notices with block lettering announced that "all hot water would be shut off in Grays Hall" because of some sort of construction project or something. One day it was to check the pipes. Another day it was to clean the system. You know, technical stuff...
That is not to say that there is nothing entertaining about the occassional smash-em-up-and-feel-good-about-it-movie. It's just that such pictures are quite rightly not the stuff of which Oscar legends are made...