Word: mullet
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Remember in the early '80s when BONO suffered from a severe mullet? A stylist improved his look for the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 but made off with his Stetson. U2 learned the ex-staffer had his hat and other garb when she tried to auction them at Christie's in 2002. The band won a protracted lawsuit last week after Bono testified that the stylist's apartment might be an "Aladdin's cave" of stolen U2 memorabilia. Guess that means the band still hasn't found what it's looking...
...Thanksgiving weekend of 2000. The presidential-election fiasco is under way in Florida. By now his second wife has left him too. His two surviving children are grown up in ways he can't entirely take pleasure in, especially his strange and angry son Paul (who wears a mullet and writes greeting-card verse). Then there's the cancer. Bascombe has just had his prostate seeded with radioactive pellets to fight a malignancy. He could live, or maybe not. Meanwhile, there's no end of searching for a place to relieve his bladder...
...opinion, and incontrovertible fact all mixed up, the poor dear. Pinker may flirt successfully with psychology, neurobiology, and evolutionary theory, but his class is jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Le sigh. But on the bright side: Pinker’s brain is as big as his mullet, if not as big as his ego, he’s a dynamic, entertaining lecturer, and he plays bizarre clips of himself and cute toddlers that feature Alan Alda for literally no reason. TFs of varying degrees of competency do the dirty work of actually conveying the nuts and bolts...
...When you see a picture from your past - tie-dye shirts, denim, the mullet - do you cringe...
...rural picnic, took the bait. He singled out the Webb volunteer, who is of Indian descent, telling the crowd to welcome "Macaca." That's either a French--North African ethnic slur, a type of monkey or a contorted reference to a mohawk haircut--the guy has a mullet-like do--depending on who's translating...