Word: ornamental
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...citing instances of "exuberant tastelessness" at this year's Grammy ceremony, you included Madonna's "writhing on a hood ornament," noting her age and the fact that she is the mother of two. But you didn't give the same information about the other performers. Does being 42 years old and a mother of two have any bearing on the tastelessness of some particular behavior? LYNNE A. MCVEY Pleasantville...
...clearly weren't trying. With so much hardware so readily available, the real competition at last week's ceremony took place between artists trying to bend ever lower beneath the limbo bar of exuberant tastelessness. Madonna, 42, mother of two, staked an early claim by writhing on a hood ornament in a material girl tank top. She was soon followed by 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake, sporting a new haircut and a shirt that appeared to be made of carpaccio, and Christina Aguilera, fresh from her stay on Temptation Island. Erykah Badu shocked the Staples Center audience by revealing...
...buffalo skull will go back up there," Lewis said, pointing to the spot on the now-blue wall that formerly held his favorite ornament...
...then there's a time to win, dammit! Proving her parentage, CHELSEA CLINTON, 20, announced through a spokesperson this week that she will be taking a semester's leave from Stanford University in the fall to help her mom get elected to the Senate. Chelsea--the most potent familial ornament in American politics since Jackie Kennedy--has proved to be a campaign crowd pleaser, though whether she will do any stumping of her own or merely accompany her mother on the New York trail is unclear. While sending Mom back to Washington is a top priority, Chelsea also hopes...
...turned into Mr. T? Do not underestimate the appeal of any substance promising to restore the voluptuous powers of youth to the scuffed and dented flesh of middle age. If you happen to be a man, the very idea is bound to appeal to your inner hood ornament, to that image of yourself as all wind-sheared edges and sunlit chrome. And besides, there's the name: testosterone! Who can say no to something that sounds like an Italian dessert named after a Greek...