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...graphic. The squeamish will be thankful it’s often easy to miss on a casual spin: “Have already touched it / It builds the bone / Although I’ll never need it / It fills in the hole I know” is more in-joke than description, and though “I drank from the wine that came from inside / the heart of his meat and the splurge of his sweet” is a little more explicit, it’s still couched in enough euphemism to have gotten past the Breen Office...
...sounds like, he plays up the tension, pitting his intimidating bravado against his obvious insecurity. It’s the same tension that kept characters like Sal Paradise and Holden Caulfield interesting to us when we were sixteen, and Eminem is compelling for the same reasons. Certainly, the joke runs thin sometimes, and his inability to strike a balance between unabashed silliness (“Ass Like That”) and heavy handed seriousness (“Mosh”) is frustrating. But his flow is only getting better, his rhymes more intricately wound and although his beats are often...
Ironically, we start talking about how the film did something kind of similar: it eases your pretensions about sex by making hilarious joke after joke about it. For example, at one point one of Kinsey’s researchers sits down to interview an old woman, and asks, “Have you ever masturbated?” The ancient old lady shoots back in a steely voice, “Son, I invented...
...joke is that I’m going over to watch the game,” Delaney-Smith says. “But I’m staying with Hana...
...tones by RCDI’s leaders, were as wide-ranging as the attendees: “They’re so mysterious,” read one. Another: “Final clubs make me sad.” And this one, which a freshman admitted was a joke: “They’re [expletive] hott...