Word: hives
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have mercy, keepers of the celestial hive! Take back thy campaign contributions! But stay the hand of thy anger, we beseech. Graciously condescend to accept these bleatings...
...Charlottes swarming Harvard are most likely the pretty pearl girls who flock to the Bee. The club has certain standards which prevent the hive from collapsing, namely that the members are beautiful, exclusive and obsessed with twin sets (last year one member boasted that she owned more than 30 of them). Girls tend to resent them but the guys all love them--and the same goes for Charlotte on the show...
...asserting the right of female rappers to be as rough and randy as their male counterparts. And while Kim's lyrics offered up her body for male sexual gratification, they came with a threat: she was, she rapped, "Queen Bee." There might be many men in her hive, but she was ultimately in control...
...deadline journalism's inherent defects is that, in order to organize the material and give it punch, a reporter seeks out a narrative line - sometimes the most obvious or sensational, sometimes a merely conventional version, the one that has been arrived at by consensus of the journalistic hive. The narrative line in turn dictates an attitude, the atmosphere out of which the journalist writes. Maybe the story line is that George W. Bush is a little stupid. Or that Al Gore lies about things he did in the past. Everyone loves to hear a story. But is it true...
...bear broke into the hive last night and laid waste the bees' civilization. When we walked out in the rain to the beeyard, in a clearing in the pines just beyond the orchard, we found a little apocalypse: thousands of bees milling and fussing among the ruins of their elaborate work - white supers strewn here and there, frames with vandalized honeycomb scattered up the path the bear had taken when he lumbered carelessly away...