Word: ornamentation
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...take a trip back into the garage of classic pop culture and say another thank you to the refuse or relics left there among the cobwebs of memory. Perhaps I should also thank the cobwebs; for if they obstruct the clarity of the rear-view mirror, they also ornament it - they dress my favorite old songs, movies, books, magazines in a musty lace filigree. Or, wait, do all those cobwebs mean that my cultural past is a Saddam-like spider hole, where I hide from current (to me debased) pop culture, and from the encroaching, inevitable future...
What drove Fountains of Wayne to Stacy's Mom was the usual soul-killing nightmare of the music industry. Schlesinger and Collingwood, both 36, met as undergraduates at Williams College and soon after started Fountains of Wayne (named after a lawn-ornament store near Schlesinger's New Jersey home), adding bassist Jody Porter and drummer Brian Young along the way. They signed a major-label deal with Atlantic Records in 1996 and were promptly buried by everything else on the radio. "There's this expression, Bo-Now music," says Collingwood. "It's that whole genre where singers just scream...
...jostled from its coffin and wreaking havoc in the hold of a transatlantic jetliner deserves a novel of its own, but it doesn't belong in this one. Yet Amis' manic prose keeps Yellow Dog trotting along briskly. In Henry IX's office, "every plane had been harassed with ornament," and that describes Amis' style. Where other men see jets in the sky, Amis sees "contrails in various stages of dissolution, some, way up, as solid-looking as pipe cleaners, others like white stockings, discarded, flung in the air, or light bedding after beauty sleep." When the King visits...
...Mendes, the female lead (supporting Paul Walker and Tyrese) in 2 Fast 2 Furious, is one such ornament: her character is the trophy at the end of a 100-min. car race. "I have no problem being an accessory," says Mendes, 25, "as long as I'm not just an accessory. Unfortunately, it's part of being a woman. In the Louvre or on a movie screen, we're looked at as objects of beauty. We need to have more going...
...sheriff picked up the ornament, replaced it and landed the third blow to the platform amidst laughter from the crowd...