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...backlash, in short, hasn't gone away,"Faludi continued. "It's just changed itscoloration and lingo...
POLITICAL LINGO...
...September copy of Sassy (total paid circ. 631,000), and to make certain that female readers get the message, its editorial page urges them to "please give the enclosed Dirt to a guy." In fact, more than 100,000 male teens were already reading Sassy, whose lunchroom lingo -- "icky" is an acceptable adjective -- and chatty tone have made it a solid...
...broadly that they go beyond parody into the realm of condescending camp. Mom offers everybody fudge and says "Oh, pooh!" when she gets upset. Dad smokes a pipe and thinks a woman's place is in the kitchen. The jokes are moronic: the '50s mom tries to use 1990s lingo with malaprop results ("My, don't you look squirrelly," she says, meaning "foxy"). And when the punkish '90s kid asks for a high five, his '50s counterpart, who wears a Boy Scout uniform, gives him $5. Oh, pooh...
...coming months, Disney will be hiring more and more employees, known in the corporate lingo as "cast members." They will have to abide by the company's strict appearance codes: men cannot have mustaches, beards or exposed tattoos, nor can they wear jeans. Women cannot wear any obtrusive jewelry or have "unusually colored" hair or long fingernails. "We're after a conservative, professional look," says Disney vice president Thorolf Degelmann. The company is looking for multilingual men and women from all over Europe who will be able to communicate with the non-French Europeans who are expected to visit...