Word: oxymoron
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...shouldn’t be surprised that a blonde has brains under her flaxen tresses. Smart blonde isn’t an oxymoron, nor should there be need for a qualifier at all. I realize that the dumb blonde bimbo stereotype has been present for decades in America, but it really shouldn’t be present at a place that likes to call itself liberal, intellectual and progressive, like Harvard...
...living proof that the phrase scholar-athlete is not an oxymoron,” said Kemper Professor of American History James Kloppenberg. “I’ve been Tom’s adviser since the first week of freshman year, and the relationship has demonstrated to me how valuable it would be for senior faculty at Harvard to get to know students from the day they arrive, instead of only in their junior and senior years...
...womanhood is a continuum, with Ruth Bader Ginsburg on one end and Jessica Simpson on the other, Joan Allen occupies a sparsely populated middle position: the dignified babe. It's a precarious perch, and not just because it seems such an oxymoron. It's dangerous, at least for an actress, because Hollywood doesn't know what to do with you. Or rather it knows exactly what to do with you: you play the wife. The nice but uptight wife...
...first: Original Pirate Material, an effortless mix of U.K. garage, hip-hop and dance beats that burst Skinner out of his bedroom two years ago, sold more than a million copies worldwide, made the U.S. Top 30 and moved Rolling Stone to declare "British hip-hop" no longer an oxymoron. With so much anticipation for his follow up, A Grand Don't Come for Free, out this week, Skinner has been spending his time courting the world's press - for up to 18 hours at a stretch. Early morning phoners with Australia, afternoon drinks with TIME, back on the phone...
...seems that the term “civil marriage” is something of an oxymoron to begin with. That word “marriage”—so rife and saturated with religious connotation and emotion, “civil” or not—is on the large part the thing that is preventing people from extending the civil rights contained therein to their fellow citizens, despite the fact that such an ecclesiastical term has no place in a government that values a separation of church and state. For the traditional definitions of religion...