Word: paragone
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...atrocious and embarrassing to listen to, and they harness unneeded and negative emotions. Take the socially-aware hip-hop artist Will.I.Am—a member of the Black Eyed Peas—and the Pussycat Dolls, a girl band that is advertised as a paragon of the advancement of women, but is perhaps better known for scantily-clad dress and provocative dance movements. In their currently popular song “Beep,” Will.I.Am says, “It’s funny how a man only thinks about the… You got a real...
...company. Instead of operating in traffic-clogged Chinatown, Wong chose Penn Station, a major Manhattan transportation hub, as the base for his Eastern Travel & Tour Inc. More important, inspired by David Neeleman, whose JetBlue shook up the airline industry, Wong hopes to remake the bus-trip experience into a paragon of customer service. Wong and his four partners, one Spanish and the rest Chinese, are emphasizing service. "I don't want to copy from Greyhound," says Wong, who earned his M.B.A. from Indiana State University's business school. "My model is JetBlue...
...cover the same birth-to-death span: his youth in Poland, his resistance first against the Nazis and then the communists, his rise to world leader. But they bring out different sides of his personality. Have No Fear's Wojtyla (Thomas Kretschmann) is starchy and principled, more a paragon than a person. CBS's mini-series presents a soft-focus, avuncular Wojtyla, dividing the role in two: the young priest (Cary Elwes) is a jocular guy who talks sex (within marriage, don't worry) with his young parishioners; the Pontiff (Jon Voight) is a self-deprecating wit whose career...
...fact that she adopts whatever name her lovers call her. Whether she’s known as “Popsie” or “Katya,” Lulu is whatever her lovers want her to be; therefore, even if she is not a paragon of innocence, her lovers will choose to see Lulu that way. The standards they set for their perfectly virginal Lulu are impossible to meet, and thus, their relationships are ultimately doomed, as is seen by the end of the play...
...many people, the change of seasons is a time when discontent almost literally comes out of the closet. There's never enough space for off-season clothes. Shelves are jammed. Shoes are piled everywhere. The floor is invisible. Instead of being a tidy paragon of organization, your closet is merely a glorified cupboard with delusions of urbanity, a cramped vision of messy modern living...