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...City devotees may want to brush up on their algebra before they go shopping for their next pair of Manolo Blahniks. Mathematically inclined scientists at the Institute of Physics in London have devised a back-of-the-envelope (and slightly tongue-in-cheek) formula to help a woman determine just how high her heels can go before she topples over. Among the variables: number of years' experience wearing towering heels, time elapsed since the shoe was the height of fashion, and number of social cocktails the wearer plans to imbibe...
Under-the-radar to the world, perhaps, but not to friends. “Yan surely has a tongue-in-cheek ironic self-promotion about him,” Wong says. The snowshoe that hangs on his wall is a testament to his love of the absurd. “I don’t snowshoe,” he says. “It’s meant to be ironic...
...maggoty meat on his family's dinner table while gambling away his earnings, beats and rapes his estranged wife, and hurls his stepdaughter down a staircase. When a worker at his fish-cake factory begs for back pay, Kim responds by applying a hot coal to the man's cheek. After the business takes off, Kim invests his gains in a loan-sharking operation, opening up vast new reserves of people to exploit and brutalize. To Kim, power is to be abused, affection to be crushed...
Though He has the Technology is woefully inconsistent and often painfully tongue-in-cheek (the cell-phone ring on “Bikini Infinity ‘The Epic Journey To The Mother Land’” is intolerable), repeated plays reveal an inner core of solid song writing and sincere emotion under the ADDcore finish. Although the band will undoubtedly benefit from a more introspective focus, there are points on the album where all that seems to matter (to paraphrase a series of punk legends before them) is that the WPP are young, loud and Canadian...
...pentecostalist social worker who captured Greenway, on Sydney's northwestern fringe; and Family First, a three-year-old party of Christians whose second preferences boosted the Coalition vote in several marginal seats. David Marr, author of the anticlerical squib The High Price of Heaven, likely had tongue in cheek when he noted recently that "God is working for the Liberal Party." But that doesn't mean he was wrong...