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For good or for bad, anything is in season, anytime.
Margulis employs a simple heuristic in evaluating the practices and products associated with childbearing: anything used by mainstream doctors and hospitals = bad; anything used by midwives or alternative healers = good.
("What do you think he really meant when he said that his friend said yesterday that you weren't bad?") Anything could happen on the bus in the next half hour; even something with the power to obliterate and reduce to dust the double maths, Scripture, double Latin, and (worst) P.E. that lie in wait at the end of the journey — a doom of tedium, infinitely long.
These days, the Soviet experience has increasingly come in useful to identify the bad — anything Western, modern or "other," from U.S.A.I.D. (ordered at a very short notice to close shop in Russia as of October 1st this year) to homosexuality, books about sex for teen-agers, and contemporary-art exhibits.
We like – or pretend to like, and to us it's virtually the same thing – big-hair metal, daytime soaps, Dr Phil, Diff'rent Strokes reruns, jokes that are funny because they're deliberately unfunny, bad acting, bad special effects, bad anything so long as it's bad enough.
In Ibadan, some brothels organize daily morning prayer sessions during which they asked God for divine protection and prayed that God would bless their work and protect them from contracting AIDS: "We pray that God will not allow anything bad, anything terrible to come near us".
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I wasn't bad in anything except sports.
"It's tight right now," he said, "but hopefully it's nothing bad or anything".
We won't feel bad or anything.
Environmental damage, low wages, bad governance — anything went.
I'm not saying that's bad or anything.
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