Word: incorrectness
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While it has recently become fashionable to occasionally poke fun at political correctness, particularly in the entertainment industry--take, for example, films like Bulworth and the highly rated television show "Politically Incorrect"--the undercurrent of homophobia and racism in Dog Days goes much too far. There seems to be some kind of degrading homosexual joke or insinuation in nearly every chapter, not to mention the constant marginalization of the Italians living in the North End. Perhaps Lyons fully intended to explore the pre-existing homoerotic relationship between Reilly and his roommate Even, a scenario that would have admittedly been more...
...really get is a fancy sheet of paper that may or may not develop collectible value. There's little else to underpin the stock--no dividend, no earnings, no free tickets, no say. (If shareholders had a say--a vote, that is--would they change the team's politically incorrect name and logo?) The franchise value promises to keep rising, and that helps. But only Jacobs can realize that value, and only by selling the team...
RIDE OUT BOY AND SEND IT SOLID. FROM THE GREASY POLACK YOU WILL SOMEDAY ARRIVE AT THE GLOOMY DANE. Tennessee Williams' heartfelt (if politically incorrect) telegram to Marlon Brando, on the opening night of A Streetcar Named Desire 51 years ago, got it right and got it wrong. The young actor, in his first starring role, sent it solid all right--sent it immortally. His performance as Stanley Kowalski, later repeated on film, provided one of our age's emblematic images, the defining portrait of mass man--shrewd, vulgar, ignorant, a rapacious threat to all that is gentle and civilized...
...think [the decision] was incorrect. That'swhy we filed suit," Shapiro said in an interviewyesterday...
...intent to challenge with my writings; and by challenging, I meant to improve, to jolt slumbering minds into wakefulness. Even if my contrarian opinions have been incorrect, I hope they have made you rethink received opinion and conventional wisdom, as J. S. Mill suggested they might. But I conjecture, with reserve, that at least some of my contrarian opinions have been correct. If so, I hope they have made you reject received opinion and conventional wisdom...