Word: jocks
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...doubt, the temptation offered by the hypertrophic art market can also promote institutional laziness. Why come up with other ways to raise money when whatever paintings you have in hand are a potential and easily accessed gold mine? Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, says Fisk could have explored other ways to keep or share the entire collection and still make some money from it. "Why not look into co-ownership with Mrs. Walton?" he asks. "Or they could offer the collection under some kind of partnership arrangement to another historically black university...
...IMUS, radio host, in one of many apologies for calling members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" after they lost the national championship; MSNBC and CBS radio suspended the shock jock for two weeks...
...this for Don Imus: the man knows how to turn an economical phrase. When the radio shock jock described the Rutgers women's basketball team, on the April 4 Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the statement that it was like a perfect little diamond of insult. There was a racial element, a gender element and even a class element (the joke implied that the Scarlet Knights were thuggish and ghetto compared with the Tennessee Lady Vols...
...That context is not as kind to Imus. He comes out of the shock jock tradition, but all shock jocks are not created equal. If Opie & Anthony or Mancow had made the "nappy-headed" comment, it wouldn't have been a blip because future Presidents do not do cable-news interviews with Opie & Anthony and Mancow...
...there are people. We draw and redraw them by constantly arguing them. This is how we avoid throwing out the brilliance of a Sacha Baron Cohen - who offends us to point out absurdities in our society, not just to make "idiot comments meant to be amusing" - with a shock jock's dirty bathwater. It's a draining, polarizing but necessary process...