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...care about is sex. How can I not talk about it? I don't know what they expected." It was also at about this time that Gosling told his mother he didn't share his family's Mormon faith. "It didn't really jibe with me," he says. "My mother was really respectful of that...
There are ample grounds to wonder. The genuineness of the skull so cherished by Goethe was first questioned in 1883, when an anatomist named Hermann Welcker claimed it didn't jibe with Schiller's death mask. Some 30 years later, in 1911, the mass gravesite was searched again, turning up 63 additional skulls. Another anatomist, August von Froriep, declared one of them to be Schiller's, and in 1914, it too was placed in the ducal vault...
...career. It’s a consciousness. Many undergraduates can relate stories of being in mixed company, hearing a man tell a misogynist joke, and feeling compelled to laugh along rather than risk making anyone uncomfortable. Caring about women’s issues doesn’t jibe with the ironically detached Harvard woman of today, who wants everyone to stop being all sensitive, so nobody gets angry—or worse, starts acting like some kind of feminist or something...
...sexy. But just as everything changes when Charlie enters the Chocolate Factory, there is a sinister and aggressive undercurrent in the video. Fergie, a recovered meth addict, says she turned to drugs in part because of the pressures of being a child actress. Is this trippy video a subtle jibe at the exploitation of the young stars of Nickelodeon and Disney channel shows? Probably not: Fergie’s much too interested in showing off her caramel cones and cloying crooning. —Alexander B. Fabry
...Putin's jibe at the U.S. was transparent. And he stepped up his open support of the secessionist agenda of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which had broken away from Georgia with Russian encouragement in the early 1990s and are treated by Russia as if they had been annexed: he had their leaders formally invited to a major Russian economic conference held close to the Georgian border on Sunday...