Word: chromes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...potions for everything from wrinkles and baldness to the prevention of strokes and heart attacks. More boomer selfishness? Maybe not. If science insists on getting more mileage out of the engine and prolonging our lives--thus allowing us to work into our 70s--what's wrong with maintaining the chrome and fenders? "We expect medicine to deliver that," says Susan Coleman, president of NCI Consulting, a New Jersey adviser to drug companies...
Tasca's entrance and bar area convey smoky romance with a strong yuppie aesthetic--chrome barstools, elegant rows of glasses suspended from the ceiling, mirrors backing the bottles of alcohol. Wrought-iron chandeliers, hanging wine-racks, ceramic plates, and brass skillets liven the dining room. The cozy booths--far more intimate than the tables in the middle of the room--are covered with brocades of little sailboats and flowers. Sailboats seem to be a prominent decor theme at Tasca, perhaps a reference to the excellent seafood selection. A ubiquitous European-atmosphere-engendering Gypsy Kings album plays in the background...
Nonetheless, Gattaca, despite a certain emotional shallowness, does hit a nerve with its glass-and-chrome model of a society obsessed with the potential for human perfection. Perhaps its best spokesperson is the courteous, kindly-looking genetic "consultant" who, early on, advises Vincent's parents on the birth of their second child. After sketching some of the wonderful and more reasonable tweaking possibilities that lie before them--prevention of genetic defects, diseases, bad eyesight, predisposition to obesity--he finally concludes, in the most quietly persuasive tones in the world, "[The child] is still you...It's just the best...
...expressing a minority opinion, especially now that Copeland has been giving discounts to customers bearing Rice's ads. In a Times-Picayune poll, readers took his side 3 to 1. "And we're booked," says Copeland as he showed off Straya's casino-like interior of mirrors, chrome and gold-painted panthers with studded collars. "There's a wait for lunch, and it's two or three hours for dinner on weekends...
...next big number, and it too had everything: 30 pickup trucks; 300 members of a marching band; an assortment of 374 cloggers, steppers and precision dancers; 500 cheerleaders and 83,000 audience participants, including the members of the First Family, who did the wave as per rehearsal instructions. The chrome-plated trucks, which provided lighting around the field, were the most controversial part of the program because 1) they were Chevy trucks, and commercialism is taboo during the ceremonies; and 2) they supposedly fostered the redneck stereotype of the South. But as Andrew Young, the former Atlanta mayor and American...