Word: sexier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dead computers. Every year an electronic trash heap nearly as tall as Mount Everest is tossed into garbage cans, stashed in garages or forgotten in closets. Some 500 million PCs will be rendered obsolete by 2007 in the U.S. alone--abandoned by users who have upgraded to faster and sexier machines--according to a report by the National Safety Council. Computers are ranked as the nation's fastest-growing category of solid waste by the Environmental Protection Agency...
Thanks at least partly to Britney, the marketing of sexy clothes and makeup to prepubescent girls is booming. Rave Girl, a national chain, sells feather boas, leather pants and stretch flares to girls ages 7 and up. "Girls' clothes started getting sexier about two years ago," says Jaime Williams, a manager at a branch outside Chicago. "Basically, everybody wants to be a princess. Not like the ones in fairy tales, but a hot princess like Britney." In Manhattan, designer boutiques like Betwixt and Infinity sell adult labels at adult prices in Alice-in-Wonderland sizes. A pair of Diesel jeans...
...pair has kept an Eastern element with their musical choice: Turandot, Italian composer Puccini's rendition of a classic Chinese love story. But they have hired an American choreographer to tame their exuberant style into something more fluid and romantic, and exchanged their demure looks for a sexier image. Shen, 23, has abandoned her bowl cut for an elegant chignon; 28-year-old Zhao now favors body-hugging costumes. As Shen notes while adjusting the spaghetti strap of her low-cut tank top: "You have to make sure that everything appears right." In this sport, a double entendre may count...
...patron saint of this sort of misguided brilliance being the legendary Edward D. Wood Jr.). "Charlie's Angels" had a sterile approach that contrasted sharply with its reputation as the foremost example of "jiggle TV." Having been a teenager during that period, I can assure you that sexier situations cropped up in any random installment of "The Battle of the Network Stars" (to wit: Heathers Locklear and Thomas locked in a carnival-style dunk tank wearing flimsy swimsuits...
...says. "She's well mannered, a real lady." Where "Bette" frets about preserving her cheekbones--she seeks out plastic surgery in a mid-life crisis--Midler has made a crusade of preserving New York City parks. "The character is much broader and sappier," she says. "She's harebrained and sexier, and I like those things." But there are similarities. Midler too has a husband and a teen daughter, and both Bettes have a survivor's stamina. Says Midler: "[The character] has a certain amount of drive and doesn't want to let go. She likes her little place...