Word: plaines
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...this dance between crotch-grabbing and self-abuse? Part of the answer seems to involve deep personal issues with women. But one shouldn't underestimate the Vanilla Ice effect--the defensiveness, plain on Eminem's records, of the white rapper. Certainly Caucasians have no monopoly on Rude Boy culture--last summer the Wayans brothers out-Farrellyed the Farrelly brothers with the $157 million gross-out hit Scary Movie. And the Rock is African American and Samoan. But there's an undeniable white-boyness to much of this trend--that familiar envy, from the '50s and on back, of the roguish...
...Cool Kids are taking over this game. Jerri, the camera-seeking missile who apparently gets it on with "rice is rice" Colby in Week Three, is getting more and more abrasive but is ruling this place with the hand of the high school prom queen that all the plain girls were scared of. She and Mitchell have the makings of an alliance, judging from the way they froze out Kel, and Keith or Tina will be their next victim as soon as the Kucha Tribe gets their act together and wins an immunity challenge...
...exam was not to go off without a hitch--the registrar, she said, had forgotten to send along blue books. The proctor, who was present at UHS during both exams, had to scrounge around the hospital looking for plain paper...
...discussion of calling him Your Mightiness and Your Highness. (I suspect Bill Clinton might have enjoyed those titles.) It was also proposed that Washington wear a golden suit for his inauguration. Instead, Washington chose for himself the very down-to-earth American moniker of Mr. President and wore a plain brown suit with American eagles on the buttons...
...Ronald Reagan, another Republican president, who gussied up inaugurations after Jimmy Carter had conspicuously tried to make the whole deal plain and unfancy. Carter insisted on calling the balls "parties," eschewed white tie and tails, and walked up Pennsylvania Avenue on his own two legs. There's nothing more powerful than the most powerful man in the world walking by himself. I think George W. would send the right kind of message if he embraced good old Republican-cloth-coat simplicity rather than Nancy Reagan's fur and sequins and faux-aristocracy. And this is especially apt for a president...