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Word: lip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over what's hip, what's now, what's on the street. Nail biting and teeth grinding--not over it (but working on it). Not over that Gossip Guy photo. Not over Toto. Not over Ivy n' Matty. Can't get over the affected exclamation, "Amazing." Addicted to lip balms, try as we might. Not over illegal drug use. Or girlfriends. Not over modesty. Not over Bob Slate's or Bob Pollard. Family: not over the concept. Anna's not over her dog or the "hot Anna" photo we didn't run on page 28. Mica: not over yellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...They cant sing. Theyre professional lip-synchers! No live band, no improvisation. Just pure, 100 percent unconcentrated lip-synching straight out of the carton. No potential for mess-ups, no whines from the crowd that the live versions sound different, no need for talent...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, A POP CULTURE COMPENDIUM | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...groups called A*Teens (and you thought I was kidding!) and is currently rockingor rather poppingthrough Europe on their oh-so-demanding lip-synching tour. When they make their U.S. debut later this year, expect mass hysteria (t-shirts, lunchboxes, posters, book tie-ins, etc.oh and a deal with Pepsi once the Ricky Martin contract dies a miserable death in the next few months). After all, theyre young, dreamy and entirely unoriginalwhat more could you want...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, A POP CULTURE COMPENDIUM | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...with Warhol's hot pink and green wallpaper covered with cows' heads, like an advertisement for milk gone mad. On it, in clashing hues, is the artist's portrait of Elvis, gun drawn, off register, multiplied by four like a drunken vision. He stares you down, that famously curling lip, with all the swagger and pow of Pop's sardonic message: how a world of glossy goods and superstars is way more gripping than the prayerful hum of our inner lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Creative Chaos | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Town" to be a mega-success. Check out www.bunim-murray.com for more info on how you can be a superstar... (I'm assuming that you have to be white, be from either Kentucky or Idaho, go to church, can't swear, can't be fat, have to be able to lip synch...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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