Word: madonna
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...phenomenon, Gabler shows us the extent to which Americans have gone to sculpt and alter their own identities, with examples such as the market for professionally written term papers, a retirement community in Florida designed to offer its residents a 24/7 Disney World experience, celebrity quick-change artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson and a woman who underwent 20 plastic surgeries to remake herself in the image of a Barbie doll. He points out the difference between the "inner-directed" character valued in America's past--composed of personal qualities and goals inspired by one's upbringing--and today...
Overall, Jeeves is capable of answering some six million possible questions. These range from such pressing informational issues as "Is Madonna's mole real?" to the more metaphysical issues of "Am I in love?" and "What is the meaning of life?" (although Jeeves' answer to the latter question leaves much to be desired...
...particularly Indian thought in the Western world: how to resist the threat of being branded "New Age." India in particular has gone from being a societal punchline (insert Slurpee joke here) to the spiritually uplifting culture du jour: department stores are peddling the ritualistic body paint known as henna, Madonna's got everyone chanting shantih to a disco beat. In a culture based largely on rather mundane Christian morality and imagery, people made of thoughts, eagles born from copulating trees and spontaneously appearing mountains all have the opportunity to be exploited for their "exoticism" and "Orientalism." The sexually explicit exploits...
...sometime before adopting a stylish sense of ironic detachment, today's collegiate sophisticates paid reverence to teen idols. In that angstful era when first kisses were still wishes, when cuffed jeans, jelly bracelets and crimped hair were still in, the children of the 80s absorbed Duran Duran, Madonna and Tiffany...
...shorter than I am and I constantly punctuate my sentences with "whatever!" Discontent over bra size is an all-too-frequent topic of discussion among my girlfriends. The mall is one of my favorite escapes. The last movie I saw was Adam Sandler's Waterboy, an adolescent masterpiece. Madonna's "Immaculate Collection" resides permanently in my Walkman. The lives and hairstyles of Dawson and Joey and the Salinger five are still frequent topics of conversation. How much has really changed since my years at Tilden Middle School? My wardrobe may have acquired some business suits but when I go home...