Word: lacing
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...featured author, especially when you're the speaker at a Graduate School of Education Fundraiser. McCourt, looks, unmistakably, nice. Actually, he looks like he could be my grandfather, without much of a problem. He's even got the sneakers, shining out amid a sea of loafers and lace-ups in the affluent audience...
...Carrie nods. "Maybe it's a lace teddy from Steve...
Role-playing has a long history in pop music. In the 1950s, a Beaumont, Texas, deejay named J.P. Richardson stepped into his on-air radio persona, the Big Bopper, and scored a hit single, Chantilly Lace. And in the 1970s, David Bowie took on the role of Ziggy Stardust, an otherworldly rock-'n'-roller. Brooks makes it clear he's just playing a role, not living it or attempting some full Andy Kaufmanesque submersion. He may have recorded a rock CD, but he makes no claims that he's a rocker. "I'm a country artist," he says, "and very...
Tigermilk also references quite a bit of musical history, one of the strongest shaping factors of a post-punk generation. On "I Don't Love Anyone," in a sense speaking to Lou Reed, Murdoch tells of meeting a strange man who told him, "The world is soft as lace." The singer replies, "There's always somebody saying something." Herein lies the obligatory generational angst: a reversal of "Sweet Jane." Of course, there is also "Expectations," a song about a woman in a dead-end job; she is said to have a hobby of making life-size statues of the Velvet...
...Secretive all-female club that meets weekly to talk ballet, opera, Chanel and Ungaro over tea and lace cookies...