Word: resistance
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...Rock 'n roll is the way white people can resist dominant structures. It's a way to imagine and create yourself outside of what created you and to say something in a way that can be subversive. People with no reason to resist imagine a reason and sing it. Which is why even though rock begins white, it spirals out control, becomes desegregated almost immediately...
...that a lot of obstetricians are going to resist that kind of advice. Their reluctance has more to do with the demands of high-tech medicine, however, than with any real concern about the dangers of walking...
...resist everything except temptation. OSCAR WILDE...
...world," says the actor, surveying a once elegant patio, now taken up by a sandbox, a miniature basketball court and well-worn tricycles. The actor published a book last year, To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson. But even in that sentimental volume, Heston can't resist a few pot shots: "Somewhere in the busy pipeline of public funding is sure to be a demand from a disabled lesbian on welfare that the Metropolitan Opera stage her rap version of Carmen as translated into Ebonics." Got that, Jack...
Sorry, I couldn't resist, because like most people, I'm reduced to snickering adolescence when the subject of sex comes up. But Greenberg, a legendary freethinker, known for his unorthodox remarks, beguiling magic shows and his obsession with keeping office overhead down ("It's what killed the Egyptians!"), saw that Viagra could easily become one more way of separating the haves from the have-nots. His book Memos from the Chairman collects 17 years' worth of messages to his staff on ephemera such as returning every phone call, reusing envelopes and rationing cabs...