Word: flesh-and-blood
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...official spokesman, he became his generation's Mickey Mouse. Woods, who earns $54 million a year, mostly from endorsements, is expected to appear in commercials for Disney theme parks, endorse Disney merchandise and work with the Disney-owned network ESPN. He will be the only flesh-and-blood celebrity in the pantheon of adorable creatures Disney uses to put a face on its entertainment empire. Why not? After all, Tiger has the innocent looks and sunny disposition of Disney's famous character. One might quibble, of course, with his immodest evaluation of his feat. "It will probably go down...
...crooked smile. Or perhaps there's no single symbol that can stand for what DiFranco is all about: she's folk and she's punk; she can be a little country and even a tiny bit hip-hop. In fact, she has transformed herself into a flesh-and-blood icon, one that represents a blithe, unconquerable self-reliance: she has released 15 albums over her 10-year career, all on her own label, Righteous Babe Records, based in Buffalo. Her most popular album, Dilate (1996), sold more than 500,000 copies. Her new CD, the double album Revelling/Reckoning...
...such as the idea that there has to be someone in the cockpit of a fighter plane. The F-22 is so capital-intensive that no other country can play at that level. But a next generation of weapons needn't be more expensive. Opting to replace a flesh-and-blood pilot with a piece of silicon would ultimately save us a lot of money. Likewise if we made our next class of destroyer a minimally staffed floating weapons platform capable of firing hundreds of cruise missiles...
David Wookey, vice president and general manager for Northwest Airlines in Asia, thinks it's important to give the customers the option of going high-tech, but "there will always be people who want a paper ticket and a flesh-and-blood check-in person to talk to." He's got a point. When your connection is snowed in and you miss the big meeting, you'll look a bit foolish screaming at a camera...
Race. Ethnicity. Homosexuality. AIDS. Partner abuse. Assisted suicide. That the script for Chay Yew's A Language of Their Own can weave together such an imposing cast of issues into so coherent a script is certainly commendable. But that the flesh-and-blood cast and crew of the Asian American Association's new production of Yew's play, directed by Jaynie Chen '02, can so effortlessly embody and ultimately transcend these issues is something truly amazing. A Language of Their Own, for all of the questions its complex issues raise, is essentially a very simple and very romantic play...