Related is the slipstream, as fans have taken to calling stories that involve some science fiction elements but aren't really about those elements, focusing more on traditional literary issues. It's often considered a derogatory term, implying mainstream writers are just throwing in some sci-fi ...
aBeauty is just a pronoun, just as a derogatory term。 秀丽是代词,正一个贬义词。[translate] a我希望这样的日子能够永久 I hope such day to be able permanent[translate] a路线固定,缺乏灵活性。 The route is fixed, lacks the flexibility.[translate] ...
"Gnomes of Zurich" is a somewhat derogatory term sometimes used to describe Swiss bankers. The term was coined in 1964 by British Labor party politician George Brown in response to a meeting about a currency crisis that was hurting the British pound, and which was seen as being caused by cu...
An interesting tangent to this, while presenting this material to a group of parents the previous week, a fellow Dad asked what I would do as the CEO when their child comes home and says that someone called them a certain derogatory name and bullied their child’s situation. My answer as ...
which specifically targeted the use of telephone, Internet, cable tv, and fiber optic communications with the aim to disrupt the Mafia’s gambling operations. Convictions against organized crime figures rose by 800 percent during his term. Kennedy worked to shift FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s ...
Shall I tell you the story of the last Magic? We know its worldly interpretation: “Song of Bernadette” (1945 – Twentieth Century Fox). But others know it as the Final Chapter of The Saga of the Last Blue Fairy, a ceremonial chorus last sung round an oak tree in 2005. ...
Bloom plays the titular role in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend—a feminist appropriation, she says, of a derogatory term—as Rebecca Bunch, a high-powered Manhattan lawyer in a life crisis who gives up her career to pursue a high-school flame in West Covina, California. Her arrival in town is celebr...
apprehension and still want to be open to being productive. I've seriously got to work on being afraid of situations like that. I mean, part of it was because I thought there would be a major misunderstanding... which is exactly what happened... and I didn't want to get into all ...
Think of it this way. For most of human history, dietary consistency was a fairy tale. Famines struck. Periods of scarcity tangoed with those of abundance. We gorged on energy-dense foods like meat when they became available, knowing full well we might not be so lucky the next day or ...
The notion of “queer” entered scholarly debate through Teresa De Lauretis’s (1991) proposal to reclaim a derogatory term that initially referred to people not falling into one of the two categories proposed by a binary vision of gender. This notion provided an impetus, to scholarly and ...