Word: freak
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Created on a whim one afternoon, it’s a remarkably versatile work, with moments that are aggressively visceral, irreverent, intensely paranoid and eerily beautiful. Missy Elliott’s familiar “Get Ur Freak On” crashes into violent breakcore shards from DJ Scud and militant boom-bap from Dead Prez early on, yet an hour later the listener is swimming deliriously in the audio experiments of Oval and Muslimgauze. But DJ /rupture’s real brilliance lies not in his eclecticism, an aspiration that Clayton finds “horrifying?...
...dead were murdered in a senseless act of violence, in what sense can they be considered heroes? This American dilemma is familiar to Israel, too. Should the victims of a suicide bomber be lionized as war dead, or mourned as the unfortunate victims of a freak accident? The honest answer is that the dead were murdered not in the service of their nation, but in going about their daily lives. They are not War Dead, but victims of murder, each of whom deserves a private, personal memorial from friends and family...
...following a report that the company was under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department over alleged manufacturing improprieties in Puerto Rico. The company denied any wrongdoing, but the market did not care. J&J's drop contributed 55 points to the Dow's Friday freak-out, and the company joins Merck & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb (which face sales-accounting questions) under investors' microscope...
...He’d joke and calm down any random freshman freak-outs you might have had about academics,” wrote Robert A. Hodgson ’05 in an e-mail. “He was just a truly nice guy to have on your side for the rest of the year...
...protest outside Sony's Manhattan headquarters, where he called Mottola a racist. A few days later, at a conference to combat racism in the music industry, Jackson charged that "they" had sabotaged his career after he outsold white artists like Elvis and the Beatles. "Overnight, they called me a freak, a homosexual, a child molester. It's a conspiracy." He also declared, "I know I'm black." His newfound self-awareness failed to generate compassion in the music world, where most people believe his true concern is not black but green--that he is trying to get financial concessions from...