Word: schlock
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...they are embarrassed of themselves for actually kind of liking it. This time around, you kind of just feel embarrassed for Chingy. I’ll eat my words tomorrow, but I’ll take the straight-up bottles-and-models rap video over this ill-conceived schlock any day. —Ruben L. Davis
...movie one buys and adds to the family collection alongside “Christmas Vacation” or “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Instead, the film joins the growing list of one-time use movies; it beats the seasonal Tim Allen schlock we’re used to being fed, but “Elf” it’s certainly not. —Staff writer Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...
...Friday, we posted to our blog a video that a Yale senior had included in his investment bank applications—a ludicrous sequence that, if you believe what you see, shows off his 495-pound bench press, 120 mile per hour tennis serve, motivational schlock, and ballroom dance moves. As other blogs piled on, word spread fast—and faster still when we reported on his shady consulting firm, fake charity, and partially plagiarized book about the Holocaust. All that Aleksey Vayner had wanted was a job at Goldman Sachs. Instead, by Monday, he became the most scrutinized...
...advocate for the poor. I plan to devote my life to public service, but what does it say about my character that I don’t practice that service ethic now? Problems exist now, not only in the future, and here I am typing this self-indulgent elitist schlock on the Dell laptop my parents bought...
...full-throatedly embrace that spirit of plasticity. Lavigne has abandoned her formerly rambunctious ‘tude for something lifeless and much less dynamic. Transformation has often made for interesting pop stars. Christina Aguilera’s metamorphosis from “Genie in a Bottle” pop-schlock to “Xtina: Warrior Princess” resuscitated her career. Recently, Lavigne has been documented in the press trading in her “JNCOs” for more upscale duds. In January, she attended the Chanel couture show in Paris, and has reportedly been signed to Ford...