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...father worked in a car factory and mother in a typing pool. At school they were both bullied. When he turned up in front of the judges, Potts was a dentally challenged mobile phone salesman, wearing a $50 suit from the supermarket chain Tescos. Boyle, with her gold dress, black hose, white shoes and hedgerow eyebrows, was unemployed and, yes, living alone with her cat, Pebbles. Nobody, the show made clear, had any idea they could sing...
...then Paramount, giddy from the fumes of a profitable franchise, marched fans through the noble (but sometimes frustratingly static) Deep Space Nine, then the noble (but ever-so-slightly-belated) Voyager and on down into the black night of Enterprise, a well-intentioned but not very noble re-reboot that featured a theme song by Diane Warren (borrowed from - wait for it - Patch Adams) in place of the traditional, lush instrumental opener and, in the holy captain's chair, Scott Bakula (borrowed from - wait for it - Quantum Leap). Not even Jolene Blalock with Vulcan ears could save it. Enterprise became...
...distinctive premise, but Whitehead provides a distinctive heritage: Benji's grandparents were among a group of professional African Americans who bought land in Sag, built homes and created a community. "According to the world," says Benji, "we were the definition of paradox: black boys with beach houses." With this, Whitehead creates just enough tension for his coming-of-age novel. His teenage hero is both insider and outsider, working nonstop to find his place among the white kids he attends prep school with from September to June, the black kids he hangs out with in Sag and the expectations...
Which raises many interesting questions for us here at FlyBy, including: what is the Harvard black market ticket value of General David Petraeus versus the Dalai Lama...
...stewardess? Good Ma, I fly too. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Of course I love you. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: No. Favorite childhood activity: Porch-swinging Sexiest physical trait: Isn’t scrawny the new black? Best part about Harvard: LEVERETT HOUSE MUFUCKAZZZZ Worst part about Harvard: Mather House, obvi. Describe yourself in 3 words: Post-feminist bro Holla. In 15 minutes you are: 5-on-1 monkey in the middle In 15 years you are: Stuntin’ like my daddy. He’s a priest...