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Article: The Nike chain-saw massacre.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2000
- Author:
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It was with great regret that I noted the death of the phrase "reality check" some weeks ago. It happened when I used it and everyone at the table stared at me and someone finally piped up with "God, I haven't heard that since the '80s." The shame. The recrimination. I'd been dealing with reality checks for an entire spare decade and nobody had set me straight. On the other hand, when I asked what the phrase had been replaced with, nobody could tell me, which is a sure sign that reality still needs checking and plenty of it.
Later that evening I was looking at coverage of the Sydney Olympics, which was delayed by so many hours that it might have been from the ...