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...mensch was the kind of guy your mother wanted you to marry. A devoted and kind Jewish son, no doubt, but someone with as much zing as a glass of warm, flat, seltzer. But what a difference a few pop cultural references make. Menschiness has suddenly become cool. Desperate husband Carlos on Desperate Housewives described his parole officer as one, while the term came up in an episode of the generally un-menschy ?Jake in Progress.? John Lithgow was just singing about them on Broadway in ?Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.? And a guest on Oprah even described her as ?Mensch...
...wedding boom, though, has brought some social strains. Because good weather and good astrology coincide so rarely, millions of weddings are held on a few select nights during the cool winter season. In Delhi, that means up to 15,000 weddings a night, causing dusk-to-dawn gridlock for 14 million residents, as hundreds of thousands of guests cross town, park on the sidewalks and later weave unsteadily back home. To rein in the fun, local police have begun raiding unlicensed wedding parties and impounding gifts as evidence. In anticipation of the estimated 30,000 weddings scheduled in the city...
...also earnest moments, as when NFL on Fox weather babe Jillian Barberie, pictured--the competition's ringer--revealed that she has dreamed of spangle-costumed skating glory since she was a girl. Plus, we got to see Full House's Dave Coulier skate in a dress. Now that's cool--cool...
...dynamics, on sort of a vast scale. It was interesting to watch different kinds of guys you would not have expected to behave terribly, behave terribly. Guys you would have expected to behave terribly, behaving like wonderful people, who had some different weird life situations. That was what was cool about it overall for me. It was eye-opening, and expanding...
...benefit can most accurately be described as arch. At one point, he even sips a cup of tea, barely glancing at her gyrations. At another, he reads a magazine and smirks. Maybe he’s resisting temptation. More likely, he’s just playing it cool. With a few embarrassing exceptions (please, Prince, start wearing shirts under your suit coats), he plays the tease well. The video certainly doesn’t break any new ground, but it isn’t trying to. The angular funk of the song, a throwback to some of Prince?...