Word: gibe
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...Macaca" (a.k.a. S.R. Sidarth) got the gibe on video. Last week, three days after Allen spoke, Webb's campaign posted it on YouTube.com and ignited a firestorm. Now other campaigns are worried about being "YouTubed" and losing control of their message in cyberspace. But not everyone thinks the scrutiny that comes with such publicity is a bad thing. In fact, YouTube could be seen as a new tool for political accountability. As a G.O.P. official notes, "If you don't say something stupid, you don't have to worry about YouTube...
...games and endured epic battles of knock-out, twenty-one, and three-on-three. Quickly, we established traditions: watching movies afterwards at the theater next door, eating all our post-game meals at the nearby Gemini Diner, constantly joking and talking trash. Each day, someone would inevitably hear a gibe about their mother and/or sister which would have made Marco Materazzi blush...
...from Desperate Housewives.”In introducing their female guest, Blickstead and Dodd described Berry’s “frequent willingness to expose her vulnerability,” motioning toward his chest.Keeping with the no-holds-barred mood of the event, the roasters continued to gibe at Berry’s “titillating” talent.“Stunts weren’t the only things that were fake,” Blickstead said.“These are real,” Berry declared emphatically, grabbing her breasts...
Having assembled an army of bloggers out of some 250 of her celebrity and politician friends, Arianna Huffington last week launched her much hyped HUFFINGTONPOST.COM. Randomness rules: a cute photo from mockumentary filmmaker Christopher Guest's garden ("my first sprout of the year") follows a bitter gibe from playwright David Mamet on New York magazine drama critic John Simon, fired last week "from the post he long disgraced." But there's no way to search, and the bloggers share a cluttered home page with sundry news links. If you're not a fan, you can find company on blogs like...
...being compared, usually unfavorably, with baby boomers. In part, the standard critique was that Gen X's culture was inferior--its music phonier, its ideals shallower, its icons pettier than those of the 1960s. True or not, as this cohort pushes 40, it has perversely rebelled against this gibe by embracing it--remembering its tackiest, most disposable childhood icons most fondly of all. If Gen X-ers turned nostalgic much earlier than the 30-year-olds of decades past, maybe it's because, inundated with video, musical and commercial messages from birth, they have lived more media lives in fewer...