Word: lip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lip-synching is another form of hypocrisy, and the revelations about the pop group Milli Vanilli seemed to be merely part of a trend. Lip-synching, in fact, is a new American art form. Herewith, the Leading Lip Synchers...
...price of oil would skyrocket, and our productive capacities would be diverted from the critical technological challenges of the 1990's. Germany and Japan, our primary competitors in the new geoeconomy, are far more dependent than the U.S. on imported oil. Yet, neither has offered much more than lip service to the anti-Iraq crusade. That should tell us something about the new world order...
Boston. Police are barely holding their own against drug dealers, and a $20 "blow" of crack is still easy to find. "The Federal Government is giving us more lip support than financial support," says William Celester, Boston police commander in Roxbury, Boston's toughest neighborhood. "People tend to believe that if you don't hear about the drug problem, it is somehow subsiding," says Don Muhammad, a minister for the Nation of Islam in Roxbury. "I feel it's going to escalate because of the economy. More people are going to resort to unethical and illegal means of earning...
...exactly . . . well, charismatic on camera. Today's concert audiences want to see re-creations of videos, and that often demands intricate, high-energy choreography of a kind that makes live vocalizing extremely difficult. Madonna, Janet Jackson and the New Kids on the Block have all resorted to some lip-syncing in their recent shows to see them through the rigors of dancing. They have never, though, used surrogates for the sound that bears their name...
...recent years, however, such problems as ozone depletion and deforestation have shown that mankind is threatening the systems that support its economic and social well-being. Americans pay lip service to this reality but tend to revert to old thinking when environmental reform threatens either jobs or life-styles. People thus need to undergo a fundamental shift in perspective, acknowledging their dependence on a healthy biosphere. Seeing earth as a whole erases the illusion that humanity is separate from the natural order. For that reason alone, The Home Planet (Addison-Wesley; $19.95), an elegant compilation of photos taken during American...