Word: mates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...really annoying entryway-mate who forced me to," said Scott A. Taylor...
Perhaps figuring that Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley's split has left a gap in the market for odd matches, PRINCE has settled on a lifetime mate. The artist, formerly known as avidly polygynous, will marry MAYTE (pronounced my-tay) GARCIA, a Puerto Rican--born belly dancer and singer who has been a member of his backup group since 1992. The happy nuptials will take place in Paris on Valentine's Day, to the strains of Kamasutra, a symphony Prince has commissioned from his band, the New Power Generation. Further details--what Mayte's married name will...
...have turned copulation into a girl-eats-boy story. In this case, though, the male not only lets himself be devoured; he also performs acrobatics to make it happen. As soon as the male has put what is delicately known as his intromittent organ into his much larger mate, he turns a somersault--without slipping out--and dangles his juicy abdomen right in front of her mouth. Who could resist? Not the female, who usually begins chomping away...
...plot is always the same. People with problems--"husband says she looks like a cow," "pressured to lose her virginity or else," "mate wants more sex than I do"--are introduced to rational methods of problem solving. People with moral failings--"boy crazy," "dresses like a tramp," "a hundred sex partners"--are introduced to external standards of morality. The preaching--delivered alternately by the studio audience, the host and the ever present guest therapist--is relentless. "This is wrong to do this," Sally Jessy tells a cheating husband. "Feel bad?" Geraldo asks the girl who stole her best friend...
...epiphany evokes a dry giggle, except when he's waxing wrothful on Beatlemania ("They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then they blamed it on us"). Paul sounds earnest and superficial, like a Tory spokesman, and Ringo is still the ideal, unflappable pub mate. Even the grating last years, when Paul would rag George about his guitar playing, or sneak in to redub Ringo's drum parts, are events to look back on in sorrow, not anger. From the grave, Lennon has to give perspective to the breakup: "It was a slow death...