Word: alexa
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Hell, even Billy Joel got in on the act with his trumped-out prole anthems “Allentown” and “The Downeaster Alexa,” conjuring up infinitely absurd images of Joel working in a steel mill, or relying on “the rod and the reel” to feed his family. Predating the Killers’ similar appropriation by several decades, Joel’s irony may have been unintended, but the best of the genre, and its musical ancestors, relied on a self-conscious tension between catchiness and acerbity...
Recognize those eyes? That knowing smile? That's the Piano Man's daughter ALEXA RAY JOEL, who's on tour to promote her first EP, Sketches. The offspring of Billy Joel and ex-wife Christie Brinkley, Alexa Ray, 20, hasn't quite found her stage feet: she fainted onstage while performing in upstate New York in mid-September. But one of the advantages of coming from a famous family is that you always have plenty of material (like, for instance, your mom's headline-heavy divorce). And Alexa Ray isn't afraid to use it. Her tune...
...senior this fall at Fordham University in New York: "The Republican Party is becoming what it criticized in 1994--the party of Washington power, the party of Big Government, Big Spending and Big Business." Even those who support the party and the President sound like outsiders. Says Alexa Moutevelis, a 20-year-old Washington and Lee University student who has Bush stickers on her car: "I'm a conservative because I'm antiestablishment." Ohio University senior Clayton Henson, 22, uses similar language: "The left controls the campus ... They are the establishment now. They are the reactionary ones...
...today. It’s clear that Widdicombe’s wit has already won over her friends. “She makes jokes that you can repeat to 20 different people out of context and everybody will still laugh,” says Widdicombe’s blockmate, Alexa H. Hirschfeld ’06. “She’s that original, and it just shows what a genuinely witty person she is.” Friends on staff with Widdicombe at the Lampoon say she is “both terrifying and exhilarating?...
...Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I’m naturally blonde. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I’m naturally blonde. Favorite childhood toy: Candyland. Sexiest physical trait: My sex-phone-operator-esque voice. Favorite part about Harvard: Alexa, Lizzie, Alexandra, Tina, Sylvia, Steph, Livia, Whitney, Allie, Lucy—my roommates. Least favorite part about Harvard: Bars close at 2 a.m. Describe yourself in three words: Chi-chis afuera. In 15 minutes you are: Watching “The Real Housewives...