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Word: shiksas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with a magnificent future ahead of you," Marcus' father tells him. "How do I know you're not going to places where you can get yourself killed?") Like Portnoy, Marcus escapes to college in Ohio, where he is baffled and inflamed by the attentions of a sexually unfettered shiksa. Unlike Portnoy, Indignation is a weird, flawed little book, full of undigested dialogue and cut-and-paste philosophy (including a 10-page argument about Bertrand Russell that culminates in a fit of vomiting). It's half fantasy and half tantrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Older Writers Revisiting Their Younger Selves | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...were identifiably Jewish, including the crushed glass at the wedding and the honeymoon at a Miami Beach hotel. Lila's worst crimes are eating candy bars in bed and whining, which is understandable, considering that her husband has abandoned her three days into their marriage. Kelly is the blond shiksa dreamgirl (closer to the remake's Lila than to the fair-haired Miranda), whose family is moving out of the Miami Beach hotel because it has "the wrong element" (Jewish) and into a posh social club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stiller Loses Heart | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...slinky tanks and T's with Yiddish phrases like YENTA and OY VEY are now in more than 100 stores and have been spotted on such non-Jewish celebs as Madonna, Christina Aguilera and Kelly Osbourne. Indeed, one of its best-selling shirts proclaims the wearer to be a SHIKSA--a non-Jewish girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chosen Couture | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

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