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Word: jive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...favor of animal rights discourses, rhetoric about changing the world, borderline flirtatious remarks about beauty and fingernail polish and gushing adoration of Cornel West. Brother Blue snaps his fingers, speaks in rhythm, drops to whispers, scrunches his face on the verge of tears, stands up to “jive and dance.” His continuous energy is an imposing, persistent vibe in the room. Especially when he’s asking “Do you think you’re beautiful?” Also, when he says that Don Quixote and St. Francis of Assisi...

Author: By Justina L. Wong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spinning a Blue Yarn | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...dogmatisms. Some of them take fat fees from companies like Enron in exchange for a few hogsheads of bloviation. But there should still be enormous respect and affection for the curiosity that you find in the eyes of real journalists, people like Daniel Pearl--not the mere shuck-and-jive entertainers and careerists but the intelligent ones who ask questions and respect facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gleam Of A Pearl | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...dogmatisms. Some of them take fat fees from companies like Enron in exchange for a few hogsheads of bloviation. But there should still be enormous respect and affection for the curiosity that you find in the eyes of real journalists, people like Daniel Pearl - not the mere shuck-and-jive entertainers and careerists but the intelligent ones who ask questions and respect facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gleam of a Pearl | 2/26/2002 | See Source »

...time of year,” Phelps explains. “People want to hold that love in position.” Nipple clips available for $20 restrict blood flow to the chest and offer instruction in pain management. If whips, ropes and furry handcuffs don’t jive with the desired ambience, perhaps the “Pony Play Butt Plug” will. One of Phelps’ favorite items, it supposedly creates an animalistic, primitive feeling through the foot-long, pseudo-horse mane that dangles from its tip. “People underestimate the butt?...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night, Out of Love | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...center of the teen-pop revolution, you enter an unmarked, soot-colored brownstone in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. In his office on the 11th floor, behind his big wooden desk with its neatly organized stacks of CDs, Jive president Barry Weiss is a crackling wire of energy, jumping up to fetch a DVD from a shelf, scribbling memos, barking orders in a brisk, rat-tat-tat fashion. The walls of the native Long Islander's office are decorated with the trophies of two decades of conquests--half a dozen gold and platinum albums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jive Records Presents: Teen Idols Collect Them All! | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

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