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a large celebration or party, typically a lavish and boisterous one

derivative of bluegrass festivals and folk-rock jamborees

Punk: The Right Kind of Pain (118) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

derivative of bluegrass festivals and folk-rock jamborees

Punk: The Right Kind of Pain (118) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

lengths of timber or steel supporting part of the structure of a building, typically arranged in parallel series to support a floor or ceiling

The joists that held the low roof seemed endangered by all the bodies flying and butting each other

Punk: The Right Kind of Pain (118) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

The joists that held the low roof seemed endangered by all the bodies flying and butting each other

Punk: The Right Kind of Pain (118) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text

There are now countless hip-hop-lyric exegetical sites that try to resolve what is being said.

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

There are now countless hip-hop-lyric exegetical sites that try to resolve what is being said.

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

any of the four tassels or fringes on garments worn by the Jews in remembrance of the commandments

I wasn't putting on a yarmulke and tsitsith

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

I wasn't putting on a yarmulke and tsitsith

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

performance venues throughout the eastern, southern, and upper midwest areas of the US that were safe for black performers during the era of racial segregation in the US

in the fifties when not on the chitlin circuit

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

in the fifties when not on the chitlin circuit

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person's home

This was a capitalist innovation, though one at the level of cottage industry.

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

This was a capitalist innovation, though one at the level of cottage industry.

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing

Soon even commercial hip-hop was drawing in electronic dance music, private musing, monomania, and gloom.

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

Soon even commercial hip-hop was drawing in electronic dance music, private musing, monomania, and gloom.

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

a nonessential property common to all the members of a class; an attribute belonging inseparably to every member of a species

Property is the proprium, a property that becomes like a characteristic; it starts as if it could belong to anyone, and comes to be what differentiates you.

Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (The Meaning of Life, Part II) (167) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

Property is the proprium, a property that becomes like a characteristic; it starts as if it could belong to anyone, and comes to be what differentiates you.

Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (The Meaning of Life, Part II) (167) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

a formal procession of people walking, on horseback, or riding in vehicles

turned itself into a vehicle in primetime for Antiques Roadshow, a cavalcade of preserved garbage masquerading as history lessons

The Reality of Reality Television (177) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

turned itself into a vehicle in primetime for Antiques Roadshow, a cavalcade of preserved garbage masquerading as history lessons

The Reality of Reality Television (177) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

(German for worldview) a particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group

something like a characteristic attitude and weltanschauung

What Was the Hipster? (211) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago

something like a characteristic attitude and weltanschauung

What Was the Hipster? (211) by Mark Greif
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7 years, 7 months ago