Word: dykes
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...Britain, the success of BBCA and the BBC's other commercial ventures is viewed with a wary eye. As its annual report coyly points out, "The BBC does not have shareholders and does not aim to make a profit." But since 2000, under director general Greg Dyke, another side of the corporation has pursued an aggressive commercial-expansion strategy designed to make it an international media powerhouse. The firm is gaining clout as a global broadcaster, content producer, book and magazine publisher, ad-services vendor and Internet firm. "We're fighting in the big boys' league," says Rupert Gavin, chief...
...kind of short-hand stereotyping that made it easier to categorize the women I was meeting at bars. I gradually came to understand the general looks associated with the words “butch,” “femmes,” “diesel dyke,” “baby dyke“ or “lipstick lesbians” and others as mechanisms for self-definition and description. From within the gay community as well, stereotypes based on dress became a way to declare identity...
...Only when these letters were going to Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death of weapons expert David Kelly did they arrive at the committee - a sequence it judged "unhelpful and potentially misleading" - for which he apologized. Hutton resumes work again this week, first summoning bbc director general Greg Dyke and some defense officials before recalling previous witnesses for cross-examination. No one is predicting a killer blow to Blair. But an accumulation of small cuts can still hobble...
...identity is deliberately uncertain. I also wonder how Asian-American stereotypes will factor into this experiment. After all, Asian-American men chronically suffer from stereotypes depicting them as fey, wily, perverted bantamweights—will this make my attempt at passing any easier? What happens when a butchy Chinese dyke dresses up as a butchy Chinese thug...
...what do Wellesley students think of this year’s increase in the number of Harvard Dyke Ball-goers...