Word: rude
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that afternoon in Adams, Dartboard did not get Dartboard’s way. Dartboard was told, “You were rude. You can’t eat.” Dartboard ate at Quincy...
...Lurie] is simultaneously my favorite and least favorite member of council,” Barro says. “Sometimes he is refreshing, sometimes he’s rude...
...thought we put into our clothes, for all the steadfast self-images that we cherish (“Today I look casual/sporty/intellectual/offbeat”), we are sometimes given a rude awakening as to the importance of our appearances, and as to how much anyone is really paying attention. Last spring I went to dinner with an aquaintance who is an Eagle Scout. I was wearing an old t-shirt I had picked up at a (admittedly trendy) consignment shop in South Philly. It has a picture of the White House and underneath it reads: “Girl Scout...
...novel, which Lethem read passages from during his Cambridge stop, tells the story of Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, a white boy and a black boy living in 1970s Brooklyn. Dylan, whose name comes from his parents’ fascination with the folk-singer, is conscious of race early on, especially when his mother proudly proclaims his status as one of only three white kids in his entire school. In an era of heightened race consciousness, Dylan is an experiment in immersion; fortunately, Lethem avoids heavyhandedness by leaving this theme of race consciousness understated...
...Harvard student performance Forte! reads like someone who didn’t want to be there (Arts, “Arts Do Not Prove Summers’ ‘Forte,’” Oct. 27). Her review insulted all but one artist and made rude and unfounded suppositions and characterizations as well of the audience, the producers, and staff. Perhaps she only slighted the opening first-year student performers because she doesn’t like Scottish traditional music or doesn’t believe it is worth presenting alongside classical music, but The Crimson needs...