Word: classier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the sexual guarantees of pre-pubescent spin-the-bottle games and Big Red's "just kiss a little longer" campaign a thing of the past, Wintergreen Lifesaver's "when you bite it in the dark it makes a spark" gives the inexperienced a classier way to ignite some real electricity. With what other breath mint can you tantalize your tastebuds with the sugary sweetness of a candy at the same time as you rid your breath of the stale Folger's stench of late-nite cramming. Grab these brightly packaged, tasty "o"s from your Kate Spade and show...
...always been classier, and a lot more dignified, to be a woman than a female. Thanks to 30 years of feminist striving, the category "woman" has expanded to include anchorpersons, soccer moms, astronauts, fire fighters, even the occasional Senator or Secretary of State. But "female" still tends to connote the oozing, bleeding, swelling, hot-flashing, swamp-creature side of the species, its tiny brain marinating in the primal hormonal broth. From Aristotle to Freud, the thinking on gender has been that only one sex had fully evolved out of the tidal pool, and it wasn't the sex that wears...
...gyrating your pelvis by a keg doesn't satisfy your dancing urges for the weekend, try some classier moves at the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team's Sixth Annual Beginner's Competition. Cut a rug with the fox trot, waltz, swing and cha cha. 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., Lowell Lecture Hall. 493-6024. $5 per person in advance, $7 per person at the door...
...gone -- a Tripp here, a Lewinsky there -- and surely it's been exciting to be in the know while the rest of the curious world subsists on Ken Starr's surreptitous leavings. (Even if they can never, ever talk about it.) But the guest list has never been classier than on Monday when the President himself looms before them on closed-circuit TV. And the 23 will put down their crosswords and coffee cups, and settle...
...front of a blind woman isn't funny, nor does it provide the viewer with any insights into the film's characters. Overlong vignettes about murderous, octogenarian Jewish cannibals are not funny, and Woody certainly could have communicated his character's conflicted feelings regarding his religion in a classier (or at least funnier...