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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rest of us) should hope we don't hear too much of in the coming months. It comes from the Greek husteros, which means late. It refers to what happens when something snaps in such a way that it can never be put back together. Bend a plastic ruler too far, drop that lightbulb - that cracking sound you hear is the marker of hysteresis. There's no way to restore what has just been smashed. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobless in America: Is Double-Digit Unemployment Here to Stay? | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...book club or at the very least invite Griffin onto the show - catalogs the outrageous redhead's decades-long struggle to make it in Hollywood, her slow climb to the middle and all the claw marks she left along the way. Griffin talks to TIME about plastic surgery, dating Levi Johnston and being mistaken for another famous Kathy. (See TIME's 10 Questions video with Ricky Gervais...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Kathy Griffin | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...book is dedicated to a horrific liposuction experience, complete with photos. You could have literally died from the botched procedure, but then you admit to doing it again. Why did you get liposuction the second time? I have a lot of shame about that. The second time I had plastic surgery, I got it done for free. People was covering it, and I met a team of doctors that had a publicist who kept adding procedures. The guy who did my LASIK surgery wanted to do a "tune-up," and now I've had five surgeries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Kathy Griffin | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

Paparazzi get photos of celebrities doing pretty much everything, but they never seem to get pictures of stars after surgery. Why is that? Oh, there's a whole system you need to know about. First of all, the plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills all have secret celebrity doors. After the surgery, you leave the plastic surgeon's office covered in a sheet that's not unlike a burqa. Your assistant takes you to an upscale hotel where you hide in a dark room of shame until you're better. There are bandaged rich ladies walking around the hallways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Kathy Griffin | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...goon bag: the plastic bladder inside a box of (usually cheap) wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twitter and Gourmet Sex: They're in the Dictionary Now | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

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