Word: plucking
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...chase-female, everyone-humiliate-everyone-else world -- a place at constant war over food crises and turf disputes. It is also a world wholly aware of itself as an artistic fabrication. A joke will apologize for itself by sprouting an ear of corn (Get it? Corny!). A character will pluck a vagrant "hair" from the film-projector lamp, or abruptly go monochrome because he passed a reading technicolor ends here. "Ain't we in the wrong picture?" asks Red Riding Hood of the wolf in Swing Shift Cinderella. By keying the insane pace, wild exaggeration, mock-cheerful tone and inside...
Against Colombia, the U.S. team realized its own fantasy through luck and pluck. For starters, it was playing a stricken team: Colombia, some of whose local teams have been sponsored by drug lords. Just before the game, defensive back Jaime Gabriel Gomez was removed from the lineup because his family in Medellin had been threatened with death if he played. After the defeat, coach Francisco Maturano said, "The team played bad on purpose. I don't know...
...Marquis de Sad's 120 Days of Sodom is "highly offensive." But is Lat any better after his pirates an obscure quote from the movie "Ferris, Bueller's Day Off," changing it to become his choice for AFARM's new motto: "We fight morality with lost of pluck, 'cause we're some students who like to..." To utilize and propagate the stereotype of the sex-obsessed perverted homosexual is offensive, not to mention somewhat ridiculous. It's pretty much a known fact that most students like to...and to think that either AFARM members, gay students or liberals...
...here to restore you pluck, 'cause I'm the nurse who likes...
...fight morality with lots of pluck, 'cause we're some students who like...