Word: fashionable
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...President Bush had that kind of revelation and jetted around the country, waving his arms and shouting himself hoarse. Gore's memento mori has come earlier in the cycle, so unlike Bush, he has time to come down from his adrenaline rush and make his case in a calmer fashion...
...that the biggest debates on bioethics tend to be triggered by oddballs? In early 1998, eccentric physicist Richard Seed ignited a furor when he vowed to clone a human being. (He hasn't been heard from since.) Now comes Ron Harris--fashion photographer, soft-core-porn videographer and the entrepreneurial mind behind such Web ventures as Eros Entertainment Inc. Harris' latest idea: a sexy, come-hither website called Ron's Angels that intends to auction off the eggs of beautiful models...
This realization has transformed cancer, in little more than a decade, from an utterly mysterious disease into a disorder whose molecular machinery is largely understood. Now cancer biologists are in the midst of their second epiphany: the recognition that tumors evolve, in Darwinian fashion, as each succeeding generation of cancer cells accumulates genetic mutations. "Survival of the fittest applies to cancer cells," says Richard Schilsky, associate dean for clinical research at the University of Chicago. "We now think of cancer not as a disease but as a genetic process...
...With fashion dying on the continent, American designers raced to create a moderately high-priced look. It was by no means couture but still retained the notion of a label and so, we assume, a house of fashion. Agins points out that Tommy Hilfiger's designs are largely knock-offs of Ralph Lauren's designs which were the original knock-offs of the American flag--and this is so funny that I wish I could pass it off as my own observation...
...situation grows only worse when the star cast members forget their lines: the wealthy start dressing down, as a sport. Has the image of Jackie Onassis (Our Lady of the Dark Sunglasses) been removed from the canonical cathedral of American fashion only to be permanently replaced with the image of Rosie O'Donnell (Our Lady of the KMart)? May we forgive Agins her generalizations, as we forgive ourselves our errant tastes. And remind her that if she considers fashion to be art, she must allow it to transform. It seems that because the couture pieces don't sell so much...