Word: trashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pounds. In contrast, Susan, the head cashier, was 6-ft., 2-in., and thin as a Super-Saver broom stick. She wore spike heels, tight pants, and gobs of Super-Saver make-up. Greg, yet another assistant manager, often enjoyed touching Susan secretively in the store room near the trash compacter. I never found out why he was fired in mid-August, but Susan got more lackluster than usual after he left...
...emotional centerpiece of the trial, had been sent by Harris to Tarnower the morning of his death. "I have to do something besides shriek with pain," she wrote. She called rival Tryforos "a vicious, adulterous psychotic" and "a thieving slut." Harris described her pain, saying she felt "like discarded trash . . . You keep me in control by threatening me with banishment, an easy threat which you know I couldn't live with." To Bolen, the letter was proof of Harris' pathological jealousy. To Aurnou it was an emotional suicide note within a love letter...
...Port Tropique is a far cry from the conventional popular trash, for in it Gifford engages in a sophisticated formal and stylistic experiment that uses the elements of obviously commercial work to create a complex piece of serious art. The enigmatic construction and brilliant prose set the novel far above the grovelling, panting plague of stories for boys, housewives and subway-riders, up in the gallery we reserve for high...
Elsewhere in Massachusetts, local officials are scraping for every dollar. In Blackstone, town fathers are considering wiping out weekly trash pickups. In Framingham, officials are planning to close one of the ten elementary schools and, in an effort to reduce the fleet of school buses, they may ask students to stand while riding to school. In Foxboro, the police department even considered destroying its dog Butch, to help cope with budget cuts imposed by Proposition 2½. After a public outcry, Butch was spared...
...what they expect for themselves in the way of entitlements, but what they are entitled to expect from one another in the way of social behavior. Those expectations include civility, literacy, manners, tolerance, even cleanliness. People from around the world are horrified by the heedless way that Americans scatter trash and garbage, as if making a mess were a reassurance of one's freedom...