Word: outfit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...another. Most critics focus on the clothes, which lean past trendy to trashy: torn jeans, bare navels, platform shoes, microskirts with chains. It's easy to imagine that behind those pouting lips lies a pierced tongue. But that's not really the issue. You could strip them naked, re-outfit them from Cinderella Barbie's closet and still have a problem...
Suddenly Malibu Barbie is looking better to me. Once seen as insidious, she now looks innocent compared with her successors. As it happened, Santa overruled me and brought Daughter No. 2 a Bratz doll (though she came dressed in a karate outfit, which is practically a burqa by Bratz standards). Maybe in the best of all worlds, two sisters with two generations of dolls will play together. Barbie might loosen up a little and learn some new moves, while Roxxi might get some help in AP calculus. A mom can dream...
THERE'S A FAMOUS PICTURE IN OUR OFFICE OF A COWBOY SAYING "THERE WERE A HELLUVA LOT OF THINGS THEY DIDN'T TELL ME WHEN I HIRED ON WITH THIS OUTFIT." WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND OUT ABOUT THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S PUBLIC-DIPLOMACY OUTFIT? I really didn't know what to expect. The morning after the President announced my appointment, the Vice President saw me and said, "Karen, my condolences. You just took the hardest job in government...
...among aspiring fashion designers, heading for its second-season finale in March, stands out because its smart, bitchy, funny competitors have brains and artistic aspirations beyond basic-cable fame. And no reality host is more dryly funny than Tim Gunn, the designers' mentor, whose derision for a badly made outfit cuts like a well-honed pair of shears...
...don’t listen too hard, but ultimately devoid of artistry. “Love and Communication” gets a bit closer to her roots with a downbeat arrangement backed by a guitar sounding like it came out of a 70s blues-influenced light-rock outfit. It’s pretty and all, but it doesn’t seethe or sear as Cat Power’s finest work has in the past. But then the album drifts away again. “Where Is My Love” is particularly generic, with Norah-esque jazzy arrangements...