Word: flapped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Immediately after the Imus flap, you spoke out against hip-hop censorship. Now, you want rappers and media outlets to stop using these terms over the airways. Doesn't this make you a hypocrite? -Keyon Jeff, Houma, La.No. I think it is some self-analysis. The outrage [over the Imus situation] made me think about it. I am allowed to have a different opinion...
...collusion." Thacker, who started a nonprofit in 2004 with the cat-herding goal of returning sanity to the admissions process, is pushing the current letter-writing campaign with the fervor of an evangelist. And his flock of concerned college presidents gained a few more members after a recent publicity flap. U.S. News was revealed to have considered assigning in its next rankings an arbitrary SAT score to Sarah Lawrence College because the school no longer collects applicants' scores...
Richard’s recent remarks in The Guardian of London seem almost scripted for the Harvard community after the Summers-faculty flap...
...other to start the to-and-fro of pleasantries that might very well lead to mention of coffee, no, strike that, a drink nearby, but she’ll be damned if that half-somnolent insect didn’t provoke the hand that in a few flip-flap motions scotched that fantasia altogether...
...Pabst, who was close to hiring Marlene Dietrich before Brooks said yes, knew that the Germans would be outraged that an American flapper was playing their Lulu, a character that was nearly a national icon. (Imagine the flap in Britain if this were announced: Brad Pitt is James Bond.) But they couldn't resist Brooks' fresh approach, which painted Lulu as a naif with bad taste in beaux. A carnal Candide, a blithe arsonist of men's hearts, she has no calculation in her, just a knowing or beckoning smile. Her face makes a kind of smile when...