Word: bossing
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...Tell that to the Boss, Mr. A. "The abuse of our fans and our trust by Ticketmaster has made us as furious as it has made many of you," Bruce Springsteen said after a ticket fiasco in New Jersey in February steered buyers to a secondary market the company owns where tickets were being hawked at up to five times face value. The Boss was so ticked off, he went on to cast his vote against the merger, fearing a music monopoly. (Read a brief history of Ticketmaster...
...Phoenix, they spend time with Lily (Allison Janney), Verona's former boss, and her husband Lowell (Jim Gaffigan). Paging the ugly Americans! Looped by noon, Lily brays in a glass-shattering voice about her kids, who are within their easy earshot, and wonders why she hasn't been accepted at the local country club. As for Lowell, he's been crushed by her tart hectoring into a mewling collection of prejudices. So Burt and Verona move on. After all, if Phoenix harbors two hateful people, the whole city must be tainted...
...with the ambient awareness of status updates from Twitter and Facebook, an entire new empire of distraction has opened up. It used to be that you compulsively checked your BlackBerry to see if anything new had happened in your personal life or career: e-mail from the boss, a reply from last night's date. Now you're compulsively checking your BlackBerry for news from other people's lives. And because, on Twitter at least, some of those people happen to be celebrities, the Twitter platform is likely to expand that strangely delusional relationship that we have to fame. When...
USAGE: "Neapolitan gangsters, including the alleged fugitive boss captured Saturday night in the city of Marbella, have a name for Spain: La Costa Nostra ... The term plays off Cosa Nostra, or Our Thing, as the Mafia is called, and underscores what authorities say: that Spain has become a top base for the Naples underworld." --Los Angeles Times...
...wish fulfillment.) The reality-show premises are even starker: "desperate" entrepreneurs plead for financing on ABC's Shark Tank; on Fox's Somebody's Gotta Go, employees of an actual small business each week will vote on which one of them should be laid off; on CBS's Undercover Boss, execs take on dirty jobs in their own companies. The History channel, meanwhile, announced a reality series about a Las Vegas pawnshop. (See the 100 best TV shows of all time...