Word: sell-out
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...there was probably a better title for Amit Chatwani's first book, Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Banker. The satirical look at hotshot bankers came out on Aug. 4, "three weeks before the world fell apart," says the 26-year-old author of spoof blog The Leveraged Sell-Out. "What timing...
...though, the focus is on touring relentlessly. A few hours after Hutz's shopping expedition, a 5,000 person sell-out crowd roars its approval as the band strikes up Zina Marina and Hutz struts across the stage in stilettos and his blonde wig. Two hours of frenzied gypsy folk, punk, dub, flamenco, whatever, later, and the audience is ecstatic. But Hutz wants more. People are always asking, he says, why he jumps from project to project, why his life is "such a nonstop thing. But then I'll read something about Leonardo da Vinci or Charlie Chaplin or Michelangelo...
...Meanwhile, for the head of a major Tibetan lineage to spend a sixth of every year in the United States would be a tremendous boost for the Buddhist community here. The Karmapa's p.r. representative claims he has attained a near sell-out of 21,000 seats at teachings he will give here (starting with one Saturday at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom) almost solely on the strength of e-mail chains. Many in the audience will be his age. When a reporter noted that the Kagyu lineage is known for its stress on practice and that his own generation...
...relationships following the death of her daughter, an event described in her previous memoir “Paula.” Allende warned the audience beforehand that the book had “nothing spiritual or profound in it. It’s just gossip.” The sell-out audience, filled with both dedicated fans and new readers, responded enthusiastically, frequently interrupting her Spanish-accented speech with appreciative laughter. Allende read three chapters from her book. In “Searching for a Bride,” she described her struggles and accomplishments as a matchmaker...
There is only one way out of this bind for this still young politician. He has to drop all masks, all obsessions with identity, all his fears of being called a sell-out, and very carefully come to reveal what he truly believes as an individual. This is what America really expects from Barack Obama...