Word: bastardization
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Dirk M. “Baba” Brinkman utters phrases like “punk ass”, “homie”, and “wassup” freely on stage. He name-checks Redman and Old Dirty Bastard. He wears his cap backwards and spits rhymes with fierce energy and unbridled theatrics. Naturally, Loker Professor of English W. James Simpson thinks he’s awesome. Simpson admits that he’s not much of a hip-hop enthusiast, but Brinkman’s brand of rap—literary...
...example, Cordingly argues that Sir Francis Drake almost single-handedly jump-started the rise of British naval supremacy because he was more or less a sneaky pirate bastard who repeatedly stole everything he could from the Spanish armada with tacit British approval...
CASE DISMISSED. Against Elif Shafak, 35, best-selling novelist who faced charges of "insulting Turkishness"; due to a lack of evidence; in Istanbul. Shafak, whose book The Bastard of Istanbul deals with the legacy of Turkey's 1915 Armenian genocide, was the first novelist to be prosecuted for allegedly violating a controversial law prohibiting criticism of state institutions...
...Gets stronger and grumpier with age. Talk to him in the pen, and he could throw a rider off. Fairly friendly when not competing. He kicks so high it often looks as if he will topple over. A sweetie at times; in the pit he is "the baddest bastard in the world," his owner says. Compares riding to ballet, since both require finesse. He's in position for a third world title...
...Arab-Israeli dispute confirm the Bush Administration's view that, after a holiday from history in the 1990s, the global ideological struggles of the 20th century have been rejoined with a change only in the cast. In place of the ersatz Western religions of fascism and communism, radical Islam, bastard child of a real and great religion, has arisen. Led by two rival Vaticans, one in Tehran and the other cavebound on the Afghan-Pakistani border, it raises the banner of a militant religion that will not rest until, as al-Zawahiri pledged, Islam has retaken every piece of Waqf...