Word: butts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studying. Lamont is a no-nonsense, no frills library. There are but a handful of cushy chairs; only the most minimal carpeting is used. Lamont is built from concrete and starkly adorned with linoleum floors and metal bookcases. It's a utilitarian box which has the slogan "Glue your butt to the chair" etched into its walls. Lamont provides students with the serious study space which undergraduates welcome as their necessary refuge...
NETWORK EXECUTIVES ARE USED to being the butt of jokes, but few have endured the sort of abuse Warren Littlefield has. David Letterman loved to flash photos of the NBC programming chief on his show and make cruel remarks. In The Late Shift, HBO's recent movie about the late-night battle, Littlefield comes across as the arch network dunderhead, the guy who lost Letterman to CBS. In one scene, Littlefield (played as a smarmy nebbish by Bob Balaban) is so surprised by a phone call from Jay Leno that he races out of the toilet in his boxers, with...
...comics, Lane and Williams, as the drag queen and his slightly more butch companion. Lane is wildly endearing: a tempestuous wife, a doting mother and every inch the great lady. The film gets less comic mileage, but more political kick, from the right-wing politician (Hackman) who is the butt of the film's genial jokes. He might be Pat Robertson or Pat Buchanan on a bad day. In the mistaken-identity dinner party that serves as the film's third act, it is his function to be enlightened--not to forgive the gay couple for any crime against nature...
...CHARlotte Motor Speedway built condominium apartments along its noisy track and decided to sell them for $90,000 and up, it looked like someone had come up with another Edsel. The acoustically overendowed condos--mere feet away from high-performance cars screaming by at 170 m.p.h.--were even the butt of a David Letterman routine. But the gags are dying away as the trackside units are being resold to wealthy fans of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing and interested corporations for up to $575,000. Says speedway president H.A. ("Humpy") Wheeler: "Our only mistake was that...
...look at it...people will like your next album if it's a kick-ass one." In 1994 Morissette signed with Maverick records--run by Madonna, who knows a thing or two about musical makeovers--and with Jagged Little Pill has delivered the butt-kicking album she wanted. The sound is more muscular; her voice is rawer, the guitar work more aggressive. The songs are about such topics as postbreakup rage (You Oughta Know) and overbearing parents (Perfect), and while the words are rarely as smart as they seem to think they are, this is straight-ahead rock, sweetened somewhat...