Word: sic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girl gets docked a point for having been in a Gerard Depardieu movie, but since, to quote from the film's Web site, "she appeared with Steven Segal [sic, amusingly] in the action thriller Under Siege 2, in the pivotal role of Segal's [sic] niece who is kidnapped as bait when terrorists seize the train she is on," all is more or less forgiven. She is joined by some `90210'-clone from a soap opera. Their best friend is a stereotypical gay guy ("Oh pooh!"), played by some other guy you've never heard...
...doing any more. But now I live back in New York, and my mother's breast cancer foundation is there, so I've kind of, again, logistically and geographically moved my philanthropic endeavors to that cause. Also, for the fact that now I'm back in New York [sic], my mother said, "I'll kick your ass if you don't do what I tell you." I just had a huge celebrity golf tournament for my mom--we raised $400,000 for her breast cancer foundation...
Fuck is a band that thrives upon subverting expectation and playing upon the ambiguities of language. A manifesto contained within one of their earlier albums explains that "From the puritanical knee-jerk cringe to the joyous declamation of tourettes [sic], the mere utterance of this monosyllable rarely fails to invoke an immediate response, emotionally and/or intellectually. And in considering an implied negativity, the effect becomes confused, comical and thought-enticing: fuck records, fuck product, fuck fans, fuck music...
...quite a swath as business manager of the Lampoon, a brilliant entertainer; he didn't drink much himself, he was softspoken and silent; he got the other boys drunk and paid the bills, bought the fireworks to celebrate Cleveland's election, hired the brassbands, bought the creampies [sic] to throw at the actors from the box at the Old Howard, the cannon crackers to blow out the lamps of herdie cabs with, the champagne for the chorines [chorus girls]. He was rusticated [suspended] and finally fired from Harvard, so the story goes, for sending to each of a number...
...settle with Paula Jones by using the First Lady's bruised feelings as an excuse. Lewinsky even laid out a media strategy: "Mrs. Clinton should do something publicly, maybe on a TV show or something, and talk about how difficult the case had been for her and on [sic] her daughter..." Dick Morris and Mike McCurry, move over...