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...defined her own political territory. She upholds the importance of the traditional Western Canon—and she has gone on the record as pro-pornography and pro-prostitution. During her time as a columnist on salon.com, she criticized a college date rape controversy as “creakingly pass??, victim-centered, [and] anti-male.” She also defended Allan Ginsberg’s membership in the North American Man-Boy Love Association, and called Ginsberg “the apostle of a truly visionary sexuality...
...that message has not reached whoever is pushing this change in the History Department. (The brainchild of the effort remains unknown; The Crimson could only find critics of the proposed change to comment on-record—who all grimly predicted the policy change would pass??while the change’s boosters stayed...
...gotta keep this thing goin’, as long as we can.” They have no illusions about their disposability. The light-hearted, by-the-books way this album plays out ends up better than one would expect. And long after 24-inch rims become pass??, the Boyz, and our experiences listening to them, will be made immortal with their cries of “Lean Wit It, Rock...
...anti-Soviet novel, First Circle, attracted 15 million viewers a night, beating out even a broadcast of Terminator 3. After being imprisoned by Stalin, exiled to Vermont and triumphantly welcomed home in 1994, the reclusive writer has not always been in the forefront of Russians' hearts. Dismissed as pass??, he endured the indignity of seeing his talk show canceled because of low ratings. But the success of the mini-series, for which the Nobel winner wrote the screenplay and appeared on billboards, may signal a new era of hipness for him. Do we hear Gulag Archipelago for sweeps...
...Millionaire‘s allowance that participants can ‘phone a friend.’ Instead, we call them up (far preferable to ‘celling’ them, as this would set up some unfortunate verbal puns). Of course, in some circles, calling is pass?? for different reasons entirely and has been replaced by ‘texting,’ which is another noun-turned-verb.The verbing (as it has been ironically termed) of technology nouns is nothing new. Consider the microwave, which started as a ‘microwave oven’ in 1972, lost...