Word: over-the-top
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...Warning to readers: the following columns opens with an over-the-top name drop. Forgive me. It does help the story...
...York bartenders can see the need for contact in their customers' eyes. "We've been so over-the-top busy that it's hard to always know exactly what's going on," says Dawn Darcy, a bartender at the Gate in Brooklyn. "But because of this shared experience, people here are far more apt to talk to strangers. I don't know if it's always sex related...but if it is, that's beautiful." Elliot Bloom went home with a woman he met at 2A, a bar in Greenwich Village; he is not so sure it was beautiful. "People...
Perhaps that is the motivation behind the man, that simple longing to be loved. From that basic desire has stemmed some of the most fascinating and over-the-top spectacles the world has ever seen. Jackson’s insecurities have spawned one mega-excess after another, all in a bid to (re)capture the love and attention he has craved since childhood. And it is within this context that his life and his career must be placed. With his comeback album, Invincible, he presents the world with idiosyncratic larger-than-life presentation...
...birth. In an effort to combat this, Jackson spent an unprecedented sum of money to force open the arms of the world to receive him again. 1995 saw the biggest publicity campaign ever mounted, Jackson’s deep-seated insecurities once again driving him to create an over-the-top lavish spectacle. A statue of Jackson was floated down the Thames, while the artist himself donned military garb and led troopers in advertisements to promote HIStory: Past Present & Future—Book 1, a two-CD set of his greatest hits and new material. The first single...
Certainly that is what many parents are starting to do. "I had one over-the-top birthday party for my child, and I'll never do it again," says Carrie Fisher, daughter of Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds and now the mother of nine-year-old Billie. "She got an elephant, and that's all I'll have to say. It will never happen again. I felt like the biggest ass." Fisher had her epiphany when she heard her daughter bragging to a friend, "My swimming pool is bigger than yours." That prompted some new rules. Among other things, Billie...