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...which ravaged Florida in late August, Americans affected by disaster have looked to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for aid. But long before its error-plagued response to Hurricane Katrina (which marked its third anniversary Aug. 29), critics complained that FEMA, meant to epitomize state humanitarianism, was a synonym for government dysfunction...
...irreverent cartoon maid, Hazel, first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1943 but later took on a life of her own as a synonym for live-in household maids. Cartoonist and animator Ted Key flaunted his playful imagination with several other notable characters, including Mr. Peabody, a professorial dog, and Sherman, his boy sidekick, who traveled through time together on Rocky and His Friends...
...best recent shot, but only because the “oo-ee-oo”s in the chorus stuck in listeners’ heads for longer than they should have. What Kravitz needs to eventually realize is that “catchy” is not a synonym for “repetitive.” On “I Love the Rain,” Kravitz chants the song title over a sloppy reinterpretation of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” It’s simply not compelling. Indeed, none...
...sitcom that by now is almost a synonym for classic got that way by doing all the things that everyone at the time knew you weren't supposed to do. You couldn't have a female star who was both attractive and funny. You couldn't have her male lead be an urban Latino whose Cuban accent was thicker than a platter of ropa vieja. You couldn't build a story line around a (gasp!) pregnancy. Lucille Ball's contributions to TV's past are so obvious--Vitameatavegamin, the Tropicana Club, the slapstick routines--that it's better to note...
...uncle, and a dozen other things before I see him as a “fag.” I could never thank him enough for one gift: giving me the tip-off, when I was about 12, that “gay” was not a synonym for “bad,” which is something that many 21-year-olds can’t seem to master...