Word: blob
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mediaset's nightly show Striscia la Notizia (Stripping the News), is a clear rip-off, and is suing for $250 million. In support of the claim, Big Red and the kid who plays him are traveling to Italy to do interviews. But are they a match for the Italian blob's charm? Gabibbo had a best-selling album, and like so many Italians, he's better dressed...
...Brinkley, Seacrest is, in a way, applying for a job that no longer exists. Young listeners have many more influences than they did in the hitmaking days of American Bandstand, and music itself has less of a monopoly on youth culture. Now it is part of an amorphous entertainment blob in which the boundaries between TV, movie and music stardom are fuzzier than ever--a fact best exemplified by reality-TV shows such as Idol and the crossover celebrities they create...
...brain is wider than the sky," wrote Emily Dickinson. Indeed, this 3-lb. blob can generate a need so intense that all the world has sung of it. And to make our lives even more complex, romantic passion is intricately enmeshed with two other basic mating drives, the sex drive and the urge to build a deep attachment to a romantic partner. Ah, the web of love. How these forces feed the flame of life...
...Lush's ethics as well as its emphasis on pared-down packaging. The company's catalog, which promotes bars of solid shampoo and bare blocks of deodorant, color-codes ingredients to distinguish the organic from the merely natural. It also tags some 75% of its products with a "green blob" indicating "suitable for vegans...
...1930s. The young artist's red-orange beard provides a perfect Nabi foil in the Octagonal Self-Portrait that opens the show, paired with shocking yellow hair to frame his half-shadowed face. The small Elegant Woman is a masterful bit of minimalism - a column of black skirt, a blob of pink blouse and a swish of black hat with carnation-red sprigs against a brilliant yellow and orange doorway. But Vuillard was a Nabi colorist more out of friendship than conviction, and even the dramatic Grandmother Michaud in Silhouette, with its imposing seated figure silhouetted against a carmine table...