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...brawls, and the lustily embraced Italian-American stereotypes. But then: those nicknames. There's Nicole (Snooki) Polizzi. Mike (The Situation) Sorrentino. And most spectacularly, Jenni (Jwoww) Farley. For future copy editors of academic histories of mass media, that's two syllables, hyphen optional, and three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV at 10: How It's Changed Television — and Us | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Qdoba: 1. Chipotle’s red-headed step child. 2. Pronounced like there’s a hyphen: Q-doba...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, in reference to a character invented by the popular adventure-story writer Karl May called Hadschi Halef Omar Ben Hadschi Abul Abbas Ibn Hadschi Dawuhd al Gossarah - say it does not necessarily prevent long names, since it applies only to names conjoined by a hyphen. A name like Schulze zur Wiesche-Meyer auf der Heide would still be allowed, notes Götz, even though it's seven words long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Court Upholds Ban on Extra-Long Names | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...also appears in William Michael Harnett’s “Still Life with Bric-a-Brac” along with a late 16th century Iranian torch stand also on display. The connections between works are endless and can be overwhelming if not explored leisurely. As the hyphen suggests, “Re-View” is not merely a review of the Harvard Art Museum’s collection, but prompts the viewer to reconsider the works, even the most famous and recognizable of them. If a measure of a good exhibition is one to which...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Art Up for "Re-View" | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...Christianity as a senior in high school (and later asking his wife to do the same), attending Brown University and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, working as a consultant at McKinsey…the only part of ‘Indian-American’ he embodies lies after the hyphen.” The implication that Mr. Jindal’s religious persuasion, educational achievement, or professional choices were anomalous given his Indian heritage is not required for Ms. Sequeira to make her central point. And somewhat humorously, a bit of research about Christianity in India, a visit...

Author: By Vivek G. Ramaswamy | Title: Sequeira’s Insinuation Is A Disservice To Her Piece | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

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