Word: bro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berney's going to win," Jon Masland said. "I would put my money on it. It's going to be a close match. I think Jeremy [Fraiberg], Farokh [Pandole], or my bro [Jim Masland] will help turn the match in our favor...
...radical feminist with a wardrobe of obscene T shirts, an ambitious, self- absorbed television newswoman, black and Hispanic militants, limousine , liberals and Fritz Finn, President of the U.S., who has had an affair with Broderick's late sister. Jack's brother Augustine, affectionately known throughout the world as Bro, is a Benedictine priest with 14 honorary degrees, a 43-line entry in Who's Who and entree to Fidel and the Pope. One of Jack's ex-wives, Leah Kaye, is a left-wing lawyer who defends brutish killers as victims of the pig establishment and has a mouth like...
...Bro's and Leah's splashy assassinations at the hands of a crazed Viet Nam veteran are a navigational point in Broderick's looping narrative. His delivery owes something to Raymond Chandler, but rather than plot there is a proliferation of character and incident that builds to an ugly and violent mood. Dunne is a masterly setter of scenes and a merciless satirist, whether the target is an incontinent captain of industry or a criminal who has been packaged as a black revolutionary and needs an investment adviser: "The Merc and I were thinking more along the lines of Ornstein...
...break it to you folks but some of us can't help being women or fat and do not appreciate being insulted. Do we still laugh at racist jokes? (Obviously not, considering the general furor over the Dartmouth Review's editorial on Black students, "It Ain't No Jive Bro.") Then why do we still laugh at humor that degrades and insults women? While the editors of the Lampoon may not have had malicious intentions, there are limits to humor. Kamala Shirin Lakhdir...
...fledgling paper printed an article written entirely in Black dialect entitled "Dis Sho' Ain't No Jive, Bro," which implied that Dartmouth had lowered admissions standards in order to accomodate Blacks. Recent articles have also questioned admissions policies pertaining to Jews, challenged the morality of homosexuality, and lampooned the admission of women into the college...