Word: bashfully
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Perhaps we should have realized something was amiss in 1980. In April of that year, Zimbabwe's newly elected Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, was appalled at the choice of the dreadlocked Third World icon Bob Marley as the main musical act for the country's independence bash. Marley tunes like Zimbabwe had helped rally the world ("Africans a liberate Zimbabwe/ Every man got a right/ To decide his own destiny") but Mugabe would have preferred the squeaky-clean Brit Cliff Richard. For once he was overruled, and the reggae star spread a message of hope that the racial strife...
...party kicked off at the Charles last Sunday with a youth forum on voting called “The Power of One,” hosted by Cambridge’s vice-mayor Marjorie Decker and Lethal Weapon star Danny Glover. It continued at the Clintons’ private bash on Monday night at the Noir Bar in the hotel lobby...
...notable passage, Kerry discussed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 in terms of the unity they engendered among Americans rather than using them as an opportunity to bash Bush...
...Animal House released just a few months before and the toga craze sweeping the country, one route to popularity seemed obvious. Winthrop, who was then a House Committee chair, joined with a few of his colleagues to organize what they hoped would be Harvard’s biggest toga bash...
...fact that a Hong Kong movie could shock the smart-money people by being shut out proved that Asian film has not simply arrived at the world's largest and most prestigious movie bash; it has conquered. The Asian Invasion of world cinema is complete. Now comes the occupation...