Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...America we don't have the same level of class-consciousness that is omnipresent in Britain. Here they can tell how much money you make by your accent, and those who rise from lower-class backgrounds studiously hide the trappings of success. That is changing slowly as the economic boom lifts all ships--even the fragile cockles--but it is a far cry from the culture of success we cultivate in the United States...
...this narcissism or catharsis? It's hard to tell the difference nowadays, but several VTV veterans explain their decisions to bare all in the language of therapy and personal growth. Survivor contestant Sonja Christopher, 63, was already a survivor--of breast cancer--and signed on as a way of moving on. "I had been through a lot in the past two years," she says. "Following this fantasy, doing this crazy thing, was a way to try to heal myself. It was a survival instinct." "I felt suffocated and trapped in the life I was in," says The Real World...
...forum at luckytown.org where fans post concert reviews and analyze lyrics. Thus fortified, on June 3, I flew to Atlanta to see back-to-back concerts with my sister Kimberly and our JANEY sign. Bruce didn't play our request, but from our seats behind the stage we could tell he adores his wife Patti Scialfa, who plays guitar and sings in the band...
...author of the forthcoming book Everything You Know About Love and Sex Is Wrong. "If Bruce is just one thing among a lot of other important things that you share," she said, "you'll handle this loss the same way you've handled other losses." (I didn't dare tell her about our beloved cat Clarence--named for Bruce's saxophonist, Clarence ("Big Man") Clemons. Seven years after our pet's death, his ashes are still in a box in my closet...
...challenges of watching MTV is trying to tell the shows from the ads. The channel has always cleverly acknowledged the feedback loop between its content (music, style) and its commerce (gadgets, soft drinks, style again), and this animated spy-and-fashion spoof takes that interplay to a new level. Not only does the art look like a Bluefly.com ad, the show is also winkingly laced with faux-product plugs (like "limited-edition Stussy surveillance shades"). Alas, ironic-style porn turns out to be as tiresome as the real thing. And as a genre, spy parody is about as happenin...