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...with preternatural powers, gets covered in intergalactic black stickum. Once he's gooed, he's bad - bad for him, anyway, which is still better than most of us on our best behavior. He spends much of the movie trying to resist the temptation of outlawry, the nefarious fashion of basic black...
...instincts tell us to apply the same basic principles to racial dialogue, and in practice we usually do. Even the staunchest advocates of equal opportunity racism must admit that contemporary culture grants a special leeway to public figures who mock their own ethnic group. It is hard to imagine that a white Dave Chappelle would have much success casually tossing around the n-word on national television. Similarly, if a gentile comedian told us to “throw the Jew down the well,” it would lead to an uproar, but when Sacha Baron Cohen?...
...post-screening reception, Samberg sported tortoise-shell frame glasses, five-o’clock shadow, and Adidas sneakers—the basic uniform for pretty much everyone involved in this film...
...most democracies, Arnoldo Alem?n wouldn't seem like a viable presidential candidate. In fact, the former president of Nicaragua might not even pass the basic sniff test...
...Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. True enough. A distribution requirement isn’t a particularly inspiring statement on general education, nor even a particularly intellectually satisfying one. But it does retain the advantages of coherence and practicality. With many options for fulfilling these basic requirements, flexibility for which students plead can be achieved. To the Faculty, we propose an armistice in these academic skirmishes: no bruised egos, no inflexible or convoluted Core-like requirements. Let us consign the Curricular Review’s hopeful, yet ultimately unworkable innovations to the dustbin of failed projects...