Word: stuff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't have my greatest stuff," Dorrington said. "You just have to go out there and keep them down and hope your team can mount a rally...
...language and worry about its impact on old-fashioned notions of civilized discourse. Is there room for subtlety and gentility in a culture overrun by expressions of gross intolerance? And what impact will this culture have on the first generation to grow up within it? Does this stuff have artistic merit? Is it tonic or toxic? Can we dance to it or comfortably laugh at it? Should we march against it or just sit back and enjoy...
Even if Los Angeles' limited experiment is successful, the technology will not necessarily be widely used. "This is real futuristic stuff," says Sean McAlinden, a researcher with the University of Michigan's Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation. "It's sort of a Star Wars fantasy." Even Southern California Edison officials concede it would take billions of dollars and decades of public works to electrify the streets of Los Angeles. There may never be electric roads in the snowbound Midwest or in Eastern cities subject to the freeze-and-thaw cycles that turn the best-made highways into roller...
...times, when Haskell goes on once again in her self-congratulatory way about what an erudite, incisive film critic and all-around wonderful guy she is married to, one has to fight the urge to stuff a sock in her mouth. But every few pages, she comes up with an observation so brilliantly right, so original, that one says instead, Molly, pull up a chair and please, please, keep talking...
...performers, two men and two women, are as appealing as any cabaret performers. The men wear tuxedos, and the women evening gowns. They strut their stuff on a stage devoid of almost all props--it is bare except for the stools brought on for the occasional duets. The simplicity of it prevents the audience from being distracted from the fantastic singing and choreography...