Word: dudeness
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...press on farther east into the faded glory of Hollywood, which started everyone smoking in the first place. The Frolic Room, where the walls have emphysema, is smokeless. Traci Michaelz, a drummer with the Peppermint Creeps, goes outside to smoke and says, "This is all about control, dude." You notice that his green fingernail polish matches neither his feather boa nor his skirt, and you know things change only for the worse...
...they saw in Damon the same thing Hollywood does--an all-American beer-drinking dude, with an appealing self-assurance. The 27-year-old actor's gambling strategy was to raise, raise, raise--an approach that suited a wealthy young man whose annual salary just went north of $1 million, but whose cards weren't what you'd call a sure thing. Long after lower-paid mortals folded, Damon continued to bet like a winner; he'd arrived at the table with $200 and left only $20 poorer, which of course did nothing to deter the amiable grin that rarely...
...concert audiences feature "couples in raincoats" who are decidedly more relaxed than Boston crowds. She's most amazed, though at the friendliness of the people who stop to listen to her on the Santa Monica Promenade. "The happy uppity sunshine people," as she calls them, tend to say, "Dude, you're so cool," when she's finished, whereas in Boston, the courtesy is the same, but the remarks are more along the lines of "Thank you very much. You just made...
...HEAR THE DRUM, DUDE...
...winter. And residents of the U.S. could look forward to fewer Atlantic Ocean hurricanes, an earlier spring in the Northeast and a blessed lull in tornadoes throughout the Midwest. All things considered, says Florida State University oceanographer James O'Brien, Americans should think of El Nino as a "good dude...