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GIFTS Silk quilts, candles, karaoke machines. What do they have in common? They're "cocooning" gifts, which retailers expect will satisfy the post-Sept. 11 craving for comfort and, yes, quality family time. Sales of DVD players, this year's hottest stay-at-home splurge, have already surged nearly 50% over last year...
...hottest real estate in Switzerland right now might well be the country's estimated 261,418 bomb shelters. Ever since the cold war, the Swiss have been required either to have a bomb shelter in their homes or to pay roughly $900 for a place in a communal bunker. (The 1962 law states: "For every Swiss, a shelter.") Over the years, as fears over nuclear attacks faded, these shelters have morphed into storage closets, wine cellars, saunas, bars, bowling alleys and - at least in one case - a massive pizza oven...
...title?” That this phrase is on promotional materials and souvenirs means a person can only be in one special location—Urinetown. Not the place, of course, the musical. This musical is a hot commodity; a placard outside the theater even proclaims it the second hottest ticket in town (after The Producers, of course). With the added support of a glowing review from the New York Times, not to mention an improbable, inspiring story of success, one enters the show with high expectations. Though the show takes a few musical numbers to navigate its exposition...
...confusion is opportune. The record industry, like every other business, is struggling to move product in a post-disaster world. Incubus, which released its fifth album, Morning View (Epic), on Oct. 23, has a patina of metal hardness that attracts teen boys; Boyd, recently named one of "The Hottest Guys in Music" by TEEN PEOPLE, attracts young girls; his lyrics, unapologetically hopeful and New Age-y, are a potential salve for twenty-somethings confronting their first global crisis. Morning View is expected to fly out of record bins...
Debuting as the hottest handheld electronic device since Tamaguchi, Gay Raydar, a hand held buzzer that alerts its wearer when another Gay Radar wearer is close by, is all the rage in California. Entrepreneur Michael Borer has tagged the item a must have in an effort to take anonymous venues for meeting other gays out of the chat rooms and onto the street. Gay men, and even lesbians, concedes Borer, will be able to carry a personalized detector of other gay people also carrying the device within fifty feet...