Word: glammed
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...Martin's journey began at home in the Stockholm suburbs. His father was a policeman, his mother a teacher. His older brother introduced him to music. "He brought home old Kiss cassettes," Martin says, and with glam-rock blasting from the tape deck and Gene Simmons staring from the bedroom wall, the rock star bug bit hard. Martin soon started music lessons. He's still not sure why he picked French horn, hardly an obvious choice for an aspiring rocker "I guess it looked cool," he says. Far cooler was the school's music room, where he taught himself...
...Then, at last, at the end you come to an apparently original piece called "Gender-Bending Hyjinx," starring Lovey, a full-figured redhead who goes ga-ga over her friend's "cross-dressing glam-rock boyfriend." She convinces her aesthete boyfriend to go drag, and revolting "hyjinx," involving strap-ons and vomit, ensue. It's classic Bagge: dirty, unapologetic, satiric and extremely funny...
...politics is drab? L.A. entrepreneurs Marie Condron and Ian Riekes Trivers asked designers to create something au courant for the Gore-Lieberman campaign. Using the same techniques designers applied to '80s rock shirts this fashion season, they cut, slashed, fringed and studded campaign shirts for that oh-so-now glam-T look. Price: $25. While the G.O.P. has no clothing line for the cool kids, Bush did score big glam points when he was endorsed by goth rocker Marilyn Manson. But Bush spokesman Tucker Eskew apparently doesn't think the hipster bloc is in play, telling a show-biz magazine...
Diaz says the event sought to show how at McKinsey, the outreach process continues even after employees are hired. He describes GLAM as "strong source of support...[that] enables us to thrive at McKinsey...
...made me more eager to apply," says a Harvard senior who attended the McKinsey GLAM event. "It made [McKinsey] a much more appealing place to work...