Word: limpness
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...themselves, these broadsides make politics less about issues than tactics. They're long on ad hominem and short on substance. They're less interested in convincing anyone--though Moore offers a limp chapter, "How to Talk to Your Conservative Brother-in-Law"--than in whipping up their own berserkers. At heart, the anger business is show business, which is why it's been so kind to comics like Franken and showmen like Limbaugh. "What you have," says Publishers Weekly editor Steven Zeitchik, "is the marrying of the interest in political books with the culture of celebrity." Even the noncomedians...
...take, there have been plenty of visible symptoms. Like her tear earlier this year through virtually half the nightclubs in New York City (where she couldn't even light up a cigarette without tabloids making a huge fuss). Those rumors of a fling with the balding 32-year-old Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst were pretty shocking too. (Durst went on Howard Stern and gallantly described Spears' pubic region to millions of listeners.) Add to all that the legitimate anxiety over her musical staying power (will anyone still buy Britney records now that she's outgrown the plaid skirts...
...upper-middle-class mores and consumption habits ... produces a lot of invisibilities by celebrating certain kinds of people within the population and not others." But Andy Medhurst, a lecturer in media studies at the University of Sussex, argues that gay-themed shows and channels are an improvement over the limp-wristed sidekicks of yesterday's sitcoms. "Diverse visibility, even if it falls into certain categories, is still more than it was 20 years ago," he says. And gay activists in Italy say GAY-TV is already having a positive impact. "Only through television can you reach certain...
...Limp Bizkit are back—or rather, the Fred Durst machine is back. Their fourth, boldly titled album bears the marks of Durst’s unquenchable enthusiasm. He produced seven of the tracks on his own, directed the video for “Eat You Alive,” and designed and conceptualized the album’s art (Durst’s screaming face, in green). Somehow, he also found time to hook up with Carmen Elektra and Britney Spears (though not at the same time...
...boys with skateboards. “Gimme The Mic” sounds like “Break Stuff,” which for this album represents a highlight. But the ballads “Build A Bridge” and “Down Another Day” are limp at best—at worst, they’re pale imitations of Staind...