Word: ain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Black. White out of my head. Everywhere I go hear those boring drums, that plodding baseline, those keys jangling like giggling girls. But mostly, I hear Ice Cube - the once patron saint of young black rage - forcefully asserting the obvious ("Please don?t believe the hype/Everything in the world ain?t black and white") or simply declining to make sense ("If you a zebra better come out them stripes"). Ice Cube always had a gift for capturing a cultural moment, and his new jingle, and the show it pushes, does it again...
...DeLay: (referring to a newspaper article in preparation) That ain't gonna run. (Chuckles...
...Christine DeLay: It ain't gonna run. And, see, it doesn't-it's about kids...
...Sick, a ballad about a brokenhearted guy who can't stop listening to brokenhearted ballads, delivers a light, genre-spoofing twist, but the other songs soar less on writerly sophistication than on Ne-Yo's deftness with a hook and particularly sincere brand of shamelessness. On It Just Ain't Right, he samples '80s legend DeBarge and confesses to an old girlfriend, "I'll be sexing her and I call your name"--a lyric that could have been written by a hundred of his predecessors, but only Ne-Yo would think to deliver it as if it were the world...
...they are fighting two battles these days. And both their opponents are unpredictable. One fight, of course, is against the highly pathogenic h5n1 strain of avian flu, which reached France last month. So far, the only infection of commercial birds has been in the Dombes wetlands of the Ain region near Lyon, around 600 km to the east of the Landes. Several dozen wild birds have died of the infection in Ain. Could the Landes be the virus' next target? With its high concentration of domestic birds, and its lakes along the Atlantic coast favored by migratory waterfowl soon...