Word: queens
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...dope Cassell's Dictionary of Slang is dropped on Nov. 17. Five days later hail the buttery New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Flummoxed? Unless you happen to be a British teenager, it will take you a brow-furrowing few seconds to translate that into the Queen's English. If you want some help, click here or holler for your kids. Many teens in the U.K. have a fluent command of Blinglish, a melding of West Indian and English street slang, enriched by borrowings from black urban America and Grime, a form of London...
...will feature two dance floors—one for club jams, and another for guilty pleasures. A guilty pleasure, said Anne T. Hilby ’06, is “anything that you laugh at before admitting that you like it” (think Dancing Queen). Cheesy music isn’t the only indulgence Guilty promises. And, adds Hilby, “there’s chocolate...
...Sunset Boulevard. Disappointing in London, where it played as a tragedy, Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest has been reborn in Los Angeles as a gothic comedy. Glenn Close dispels her chilly screen persona as a manipulative and shamelessly camp-melodramatic bygone movie queen, a legend in her own mind. John Napier's parvenu palazzo set is the grandest and wittiest of the British megamusical...
...know opposites attract, and for good girls everywhere this spells trouble. As a stranger to suspensions and the queen of extra-credit, I have certainly experienced my fair share of such ill-fated infatuations. Whether it is the smell of leather, the unwashed hair, or their cozy relationship with the dean of students, bad boys have always made my knees buckle under and my heart rate rise. Since sophomore year of high school when I fell for a tall senior who brought illicit substances to Saturday night dances, played the guitar (Dylan. Attempts at Dylan.), and seemed never to study...
Featuring a colorful cast of characters ranging from a perky and saucy black flight attendant to a feisty drag queen character, the darkly comic “The Colored Museum” manages to crawl under the skin of viewers. There is no escaping the implications of its message...