Word: twinning
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...first glance, you might take this for a fairy tale in which all of the principle roles have been altered to fit women, just to prove that it can be done. That is how Roz, a brassy CEO, and her terrible twins compromise to make their bedtime stories more acceptable. "They opt for women in every role," even if this means making life for these heroines more complex or uncomfortable. For instance, when playing their own version of "The Robber Bridegroom," "they dress their Barbie dolls up [in bridal clothes and] hurl the brides over the stair railings or drown...
...Rancid Hell Spawn "Axe Hore" 5. Thinking Fellers "Undertakers" 6. Guitar Wolf "Red Rockabilly" 7. Element of Crime "Jaws All Ism" 8. Mecca Normal "Echo" 9. Milkmine "Split Tail" 10. Gaunt "Good Bad Happy Sad" 11. Fat Day "Delicate Cutter" 12. Huggy Bear "Pansy Twist" 13. Hammerhead "Evil Twin" 14. The Ex with Tom Cora "Everything and Me" 15. Disorder "Violent Crime" 16. Mad Scene "Holding Pattern" 17. Bugskull "What Shall I Give to the King?" 18. The Smiles "Lions on the Prowl" 19. Ampersands "Postcards" 20. Harry Pussy "Harry Pussy...
Curriculum changes like these -- which really amount to a rethinking of what is required to be an informed citizen -- have become commonplace since the twin phenomena of political correctness and prescribed multiculturalism emerged into national consciousness at the end of the '80s. Like much else in American culture, the changes have been most visible first in California, the place where the face of the nation is changing most rapidly. There, Hispanic and Asian presences have both fueled and complicated the p.c. and multicultural debates that initially arose out of polar conflicts between blacks and whites or men and women...
...audience at the Key theater in Georgetown were veterans of the campaign, and half of those were on-screen. Paul Begala, James Carville's partner, wiped away a tear as he watched the scene in which he is a voice speaking from the campaign plane to his spiritual twin on the ground in Little Rock, Arkansas, George Stephanopoulos, the day before the vote. "Paulie," Stephanopoulos says in his power whisper, "I got up this morning and driving in I started to cry ... If we lose this, we'll have to jump off a bridge ... or drink some Kool...
...consider cloning an embryo they had conceived; 90% said no. That, more than any law that could be put on the books, would prevent the practice from becoming common. Rather than asking, as Time and Newsweek did, "What if this technology allowed someone to give birth to her own twin?", we should ask, "Would anyone actually want to do such a thing...