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...public debate over stem cells is currently hindered by the absence of a common lexicon with which to delineate the profound ethical questions involved. For example: Are frozen embryos whole human beings, or are they somehow less than human? If the latter, when do embryos officially pass the threshold of “personhood”? Moreover, if blastocysts are not miniscule human lives, then what exactly are they...
...cooked up the stunt at the last minute. Nonetheless, after the game the MTV website crowed that "fans of Janet Jackson and her pasties were definitely in the right place." (Actually, Jackson's right breast was adorned by a metal "nipple shield," the event's other gift to the lexicon.) Jackson apologized but blamed her outfit; she said it was supposed to reveal a red bra, which "collapsed...
...said, 'It's a graphic novel.'" Though that particular editor wasn't swayed by the semantics, dismissing the book as "comics," a small publisher eventually took the project and put the phrase "A Graphic Novel" on the cover, thereby permanently cementing the term into the lexicon...
...difficult look to pull off. Yes, they’re the ultimate in comfort footwear—think macaroni and cheese for your feet—and yes, they’re more toasty than a hot, doughy bagel, but Uggs have a troubled history in the cultural lexicon that remains unknown to many of the campus fashionistas who sport them with a mini in public. From admittedly cool beginnings among Aussie surfers in the 1970s for warming up after hanging ten, the Ugg became shorthand in Antipodean fashion circles as synonymous with only the most slothful and sloppy...
...some merit in reading such literary wit as “The poor in this country are the biggest piglets at the mother pig and her nipples,” I was unable to find it—I happened upon “Limbaugh’s Lexicon,” where he unsuccessfully attempts a humorous spin of his hateful dogma. It was in this section that Rush reiterates his notorious phrases and dubs environmentalists “Environmental Wackos,” and pro-choice feminists the “Feminazis”—symbolic...