Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Translated from policespeak, this phrase means "Can you check the computer listing on car license plate number 874-PDG? It might be a stolen vehicle," Kordis explained...
That's what I love to do when I'm watching film, I can freeze frame it, watch exactly how the director frames it, how the audience sees it through his frame. Whereas in theater, there's a phrase that always crops up when I'm speaking to actors, about multiple points of focus, or multiplicity of perspective...
This outrage comes during a time when the Harvard community is experiencing a series of prank phone calls insulting Asian Americans. The Crimson reported (March 7) that the phrase "fuck you, Korean bitch" was repeatedly used during these phone calls. The severity of such harassment has warranted a police investigation...
...that all humor is displaced anger, but that is news to Leno. "I was never angry," he says. "I could never relate to comedians like Lenny Bruce." But beneath Leno's "What, me worry?" exterior, there does lurk a subterranean anger. "It's so stupid," he says, uttering this phrase perhaps 20 times a day, pronouncing the word "stew-pid." He sees a newspaper ad describing a knife as "perfect for a night out on the town." He shakes his head. "It's so stew-pid." Small-mindedness irks him; he can tolerate anything but intolerance. "It's so stew...
...phrase "acting white" has often been the insult of choice used by blacks who stayed behind against those who moved forward. Once it was supposed to invoke the image of an African American who had turned his back on his people and community. But the phrase has taken an ominous turn. Today it rejects all the iconography of white middle-class life: a good job, a nice home, conservative clothes and a college degree...