Word: dope
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...ramifications of these policies for creativity and musicianship. When told of the voluntary Creative Commons licensing scheme (creativecommons.org) designed by Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig (who spoke at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute earlier this year on the subject) Gab said it sounds like a “dope idea.” This system gives artists a way to signal their desired control over their work without the constant ambiguities and lawsuits that discourage innovation and synthesis today...
...cheese rolling, one wonders, invented by some ancient Anglo-Saxon Cheese Marketing Board? Daeschner's forays into cussed British culture blur the lines between past and present. And his plunging into the bog to witness tradition in the making means we don't have to. He clearly passes the dope test...
...professor's other mistake is underestimating his landlady. She peaceably loves her gospel church, her late husband's memory and her current cat, Pickles. She may be an innocent, but she's nobody's dope, as the boys down in the cellar discover when they try to eliminate her sweetly prying presence...
...Milch is now beyond the long reach of the ABC censors who dogged him on NYPD Blue, the show he created with Steven Bochco. Take a group of criminals and scofflaws, mostly men, risking ruin or murder to seek their fortunes--who then blow said fortunes on hookers, craps, dope and booze--and in any century, their epithets will be frequent and stronger than "dagnabbit...
...investor, Daddy rescued his sagging share in Harken with a windfall contract for oil drilling in Bahrain, despite Harken’s dismal history and lack of off-shore experience. The Bush pedigree bought Dubya his stake in Texas politics, even though his recklessness, not to mention his dope-dimmed mind, would have denied it to anyone else. Then, as governor, he exploited the University of Texas’s state-funded endowment to funnel investment money to his cronies...