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...BRITNEY SPEARS has already given the world plenty to gawk at, from her undulating teenage navel to her impulsive 55-hour first marriage to her unconventional parenting techniques with her second hubby, a back-up dancer. Spears' recent post-divorce wild-child phase has escalated from pantyless cavorting with Paris Hilton to a self-administered buzz cut at a beauty salon in California's San Fernando Valley. Between one-day dips in and out of rehab facilities in Antigua and Malibu, Calif., Spears also got new tattoos--a cross on her hip and red-and-pink lips on her wrist...
...parquet de Versailles, and the 300-piece collection is deployed throughout. Boys' clothing is in the back, shoes are up the stairs, and there's a VIP room for celebrity clients. Children head straight for the playhouse in the center of the main parlor, and nearly everyone stops to gawk at the flower bed growing from the ceiling. The average purchase at the store slightly tops Bonpoint's $200-a-customer standard, but is way shy of its most profitable store, on Paris' Avenue Montaigne, where customers buy outfits in multiples?one for every house they own. Plus...
...Kalfus’ envisioning of the American mind, our twisted desire to gawk at the Harrimans’ fights echoes a similar desire to watch the 9/11 footage over and over again. On the day of the attacks, when the smoking towers were glowing in every TV set, two people were deriving the utmost pleasure out of the possibility of each other’s demise. Kalfus suggests that such seething schadenfreude, while repulsive, is inescapably American...
...quick big-screen-to-DVD turnaround, in-home theater options and technologies—On Demand got me through three grueling summer months in the Colorado suburbs—and higher-than-average ticket prices, Americans have fewer reasons than ever before to jump in the old sedan and gawk at the silver screen. The complete and utter lack of quality films adds, just a wee bit, to this slump. “Sitting in the darkness/What a world to see!/Let’s go to the movies/Annie, wait and see.” Let?...
It’s a night when the whole student body comes together to gawk at just that. It’s a moment of Harvard togetherness, albeit in a voyeuristic way. It’s Primal Scream, natch. Yet from whence cometh this night of au naturel sprints around the Yard on the eve of examinations? Noah S. Selby ’95, currently a proctor in Thayer, recalls that the original Primal Scream was just what it claimed to be. “It was really more about the yelling. People would go out in the Yard...