Word: blinged
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...artist in cash (straight up). Luda, you might have what “feels like a midget hanging from my necklace,” but the members of the mystery investment firm that purchased this (revolting) display of conspicuous consumption can now sport an entire human skull worth of bling-a-ling if they so choose. —Sanders I. Bernstein ’10 is the incoming Books editor. In addition to contemporary concept art, he hates candy, children, and Christmas...
...video. “Surviving the Times” presents a scrapbook-style montage of images and memories from Nas’s life (and old videos). The video is so unpretentious and low-budget that if it weren’t for the occasional twinkle of old school bling or the sporadic glimmer of gold teeth, you might think you were watching an Indigo Girls video. Okay, only if you really squinted your eyes. Just when you start to feel overcome with nostalgia as blurry images of the “poet’s” native Queens...
...worried that it could damage his hands. His luxurious Hispano-Suiza limousine, the last word in automotive bling at the time, was always chauffeur-driven...
...clobber alone demands a double take. In blue sports coat and strides, white slip-ons sans socks, and with a splash of bling around his tanned neck, he looks less like Australia's third longest-serving Prime Minister than a 1970s bookie. Then again, with his lean frame and flowing mane, Bob Hawke also looks terrific for a bloke who'll turn 78 a fortnight after the Nov. 24 election. Rich nowadays and in want of nothing material, what he'd like most for his birthday is a change of government. On this warm weekday afternoon, at a mall...
...video for his “Blue Magic,” the first single off his upcoming album, juxtaposes the gritty streets of Harlem against a plush world more akin to Jigga’s own, replete with champagne bottles, Rolls Royces, 500-Euro banknotes, and yes, even some bling! More prominent than the bling and the foreign currency is the crack. Not to say there’s anything wrong with a little cook-up, but I don’t have nearly enough fingers to count all the visual and verbal references to the drug made throughout. What...