Word: hiltonization
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...Paris in Springtime with Nicky The Hilton sisters get a major makeover, starting with the season's ladylike new looks...
...running for President four years ago, stories raising questions about his Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard never got much traction. In the Republican primaries, John McCain forbid his staff to exploit the fact that while their guy was being beaten senseless in the Hanoi Hilton, Bush was safe at home, protecting Houston from foreign attack. Al Gore steered clear too. It was not until a week before Election Day in November 2000 that Gore surrogates accused Bush of having gone AWOL--absent without leave--for an entire year while in the Guard. But few journalists...
...their precious tax-refund checks to get tattoos. Sometimes they clip coupons and turn up faithfully at job training. Sometimes they get drunk and disorderly. They go in for ill-advised sex and foolish spending sprees. In other words, the working poor are not so different from Paris Hilton, except that they have less money...
...whose content included a flatulent horse, a fight between grandparents, and enough spots for impotence medications to raise the Titanic. (The raciest ad I found in my old copy of Playboy was for satin bed sheets and pillowcases, "as used in the Imperial and Bridal Suites of the Conrad Hilton.") And lest you think there's something special about football that encourages vulgarity, USA Today last week had a front-page story on the troubles that colleges are having with cursing at basketball games. University of Maryland coach Gary Williams has been forced to appeal for more decorous behavior from...
...years at Paris-based oil company Total, Jean-Noel Dairon has gathered a wealth of expertise in oil refining and marketing. But on a rainy Monday in October, the veteran executive shows up at the Hilton Hotel in Milan, Italy, with a rather different agenda: he has come to talk about business ethics. Dairon, 56, stands in front of 100 managers of the company's Italian subsidiary and gets straight to the point. "Is this a new era of capitalism," he asks provocatively, "or is it hypocrisy in action, a cynical response to the company's critics?" Thus starts...