Word: bucked
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...course, every song from those kids on the street corner is a play-anywhere, burn-anytime MP3. The big guys may promise more with their secure and speedy downloads, but I'm not switching until I get a file I can keep for, say, a buck a pop. Locking up your mediocre collection is no way to run a music store...
...Ford, Americans enjoy finding the easy way out of their problems. By individualizing their lives and having them buck the system, rather than perform a noble action, Ford suggests that most Americans would much rather become the drug user, failure or adulterer, to be the sinner, not the saint. But Ford’s stories, though their generalizations may be accurate, apply only to a specific group of Americans who are set (or so they think) in their well-paying jobs, nuclear families, and suburban homes. A Multitude of Sins may well be a classic, but only of the aging...
...streets advocating "the application of all his notes to the most ignoble use to which paper can be applied." From Credit Mobilier to Cendant, from Jay Gould to Ivan Boesky, under Republican Presidents and Democratic ones, wherever and whenever there is a chance to make a dishonest buck, someone will take...
...some of its fellow hybridists may not be so purely motivated. On a track called Step Up, Shinoda raps, "Rapping over rock doesn't make you a pioneer/ 'Cause rock and hip-hop collaborated for years/ But now they're getting readily mixed and matched up/ After a fast buck and all the tracks suck...
...Grotowskis--three generations of Georgia penal officers named Buck (Peter Boyle), Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny (Heath Ledger)--make for the most ornery family of Southern men since the Leatherface clan in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most of them anti-black, all of them bitter, they need the face slap of redemption. It arrives in a comely package: Leticia (Halle Berry), a hapless mom who looks nifty in widow's weeds. She brings out the courtly gent in Hank and forces his ardor to do battle with his prejudices...