Word: pigeoning
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...Instead of racial tensions, the conflicts here are tribal: classroom cliques of jocks, nerds, skateboarders, cheerleaders. The movie suggests that, by junior year, kids are pigeon-holed in their groups, afraid to explore other, ornery dreams. Like white-collar wage slaves, but 30 years too early, they are undergoing a mid-teen crisis. The received wisdom (voiced in the most irresistible of the movie's nine radio-friendly songs) is to "Stick to the stuff you know... Stick to the status quo." Yet a few kids harbor subversive ambitions. The inner Troy wants to try out for the school musical...
...best at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony: “It just got a little easier out here for a pimp.” Yes, and that’s just what we need—for it to get just a little bit easier to pigeon-hole black performing artists into demeaning roles and to reward them for upholding the negative stereotypes that so many have spent years trying to break down...
...gentlemen are schooled in public speaking, networking, deportment, dancing and wine tasting. For the modern metrosexual there are lessons in dress sense, skin and hair care, and even new haircuts on offer. And during their leisure time the gentlemen have the chance to sample pursuits such as golf, clay-pigeon shooting and fly fishing...
...gentlemen are schooled in public speaking, networking, deportment, dancing and wine tasting. For the modern metrosexual there are lessons in dress sense, skin and hair care, and even new haircuts on offer. And during their leisure time the gentlemen have the chance to sample pursuits such as golf, clay-pigeon shooting and fly fishing. "It's really refreshed something," says Edward Cyster, 24, a water-skiing instructor from Fife. "It's reinstated the importance of good manners." He hopes the course will give him a professional boost and an edge with the ladies, especially the class in Indian head...
...their kitchens on a daily basis, since they're too busy empire building. But Santamaria, whose restaurant occupies the first floor of his family's ancestral home, takes an Old World pride in his place--while serving up slick modern dishes like calamari with pumpkin pure and pigeon in phyllo pastry sprinkled with confectioner's sugar...