Word: lapping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mega-gym until the owners decided to turn it into a club. "In real estate, the land goes to the highest and best use," explains co-owner Peter Feinstein. Now, instead of gym fees, he charges women $60 to $100 a night to sell $20 lap dances, and draws on more profitable revenue streams such as drinks and a $5 atm fee that almost makes usury a sin again. He does not, however, get the $20 cover charge nonlocals pay; as at all Vegas strip clubs, that goes to the taxi driver who dropped his riders off. Driving...
...legions of cameramen and photographers staking out the crime scene if the public is to be convinced that everything is under control. Even as the criminals are outwitting them at every turn, the cops feed doctored film and canned interviews to a frenzied media horde all too willing to lap up the lies. The cops and robbers dutifully put on a cops-and-robbers show. Think Die Hard?but written by Marshall McLuhan...
...that terrifying regime--and a whispered encouragement: reform was coming. Glasnost and perestroika, she assured me, were real. The minder on my left, a chunky young man, then nudged me with his elbow. "Ronald Reagan. Evil empire," he whispered with dramatic intensity, and shot a glance down to his lap where he had hidden two enthusiastic thumbs...
...Cattle Queen of Montana. His big hit of the decade was the silly Bedtime for Bonzo, a parable of cross-species adoption (Reagan and Diana Lynn try raising a chimp as a human child) in which the star spent much of his time with an animal perched in his lap or on his head. Though it gave his detractors much excuse for merriment, Reagan proclaimed himself proud of the film...
...walked up to the door of The Crimson that night, listening to my walkman as I tried to stop my hands from shaking. I decided to take a lap, give myself one more song before I entered the fray...