Word: disses
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...modern language. Another panelist, Newsweek's Jon Meacham, added the observation that "The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued pastoral guidelines about how believers should dramatize the Passion ... almost every one of which Gibson violates." A renegade Catholic, if Gibson is one, would be happy to diss and disobey the bishops. But what other movie has been charged by journalists with such an arcane crime...
...Britain's 100 favorite books - was a simple, profoundly disconcerting, plot twist. In Sephy and Callum's world, it's the black people, (known as crosses), who have the power, money and education, while whites (the noughts) have menial jobs, few rights and even fewer opportunities. Blacks routinely diss whites as "blankers" and are known as "daggers" in return. It's a way of life that most crosses want to defend; the noughts are itching for change and some are willing to kill and die for it. All 49 of Blackman's books before Noughts and Crosses have...
Whether this is a backhanded diss at the equipment available from Harvard’s male population can be left to section discussion in Marcyliena Morgan’s Afro-American Studies 153, “Hip Hop America: Power, Politics, and the Word.” But believe it or not, Jigga’s latest lyrics are just the last in a long line of Harvard references in hip-hop, as well as rock. FM has compiled a brief list of rap and rock lyrics representing for Veritas...
...don’t mean to diss any of the subjects I’ve put my little efforts into, but this is clearly the most important subject I’ve ever written about,” Kidder says...
...clothes. And so much to hate - the glamour, the beauty, the clothes. It's not surprising that the industry teems with disgruntled staffers, many of whom hope one day to get their revenge. Wayne Hemingway, designer of the now- defunct cult label Red or Dead, gets his chance to diss the London fashion scene this month, when Britain's Channel 4 begins airing his series, Revolt in Fashion. Like most fashion documentaries, it tells us what we already knew: that the business is less about art than about money. The few so-called scoops - magazine stylists also moonlight for fashion...