Word: salon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone accusing early Mozart of levity should listen to the second moment of this concerto from the composer's 21st year. Though here and elsewhere Mozart (wisely) rejected the melodrama of the salon, only here does he replace it with fine arioso writing. The music lost some of its poignant punch, frankly because of some tuning problems in the orchestra, but was still smile-inducingly lovely...
There's nothing that makes a woman feel as insecure as a visit to her salon. Sure we moan when we step off the scale, but the salon is worse. Dartboard knows first-hand...
...salon is the world of Vogue in 3-D. Not only does the magazine itself grace the waiting area coffee table, but the employees look like they just left a photo shoot. It is not just a place where we have our hair cut. It is a social club where we visit friends who happen to be masters with scissors...
...laser that simultaneously cuts tissue and clots blood. Brain surgeons treating tumors and repairing blood-vessel malformations are also using a state-of-the-art gamma "knife" that delivers a high dose of radiation to precise points in the head through tiny holes in a helmet that resembles a salon hair dryer...
Maher, a stand-up comic and the son of an NBC news editor, conceived the show as a nightly dream salon in which discourse on the day's events boiled but never simmered. Critics of PI have lamented that the show, like Crossfire or The McLaughlin Group, too often turns into a forum of white noise where few substantive ideas are presented. This seems akin to disliking Jenny McCarthy because she doesn't do Strindberg. Half hours of current-affairs television--especially those that feature Meat Loaf as a recurring guest--are not meant to leave us feeling as though...