Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother sent him to school every day in a starched white shirt and a black bow tie, and he worked hard for his good grades. He liked to recite long poems and play the piano. One of his favorite forms of competition was debating, which he did well. Another was football. Too small and slow to make the starting team in Fullerton or Whittier High School or at Whittier College, he showed up every day for practice in the line. "We used Nixon as a punching bag," one of his coaches recalled. "What starts the process, really," Nixon later said...
...corporate property. A billion-dollar example is Beauty and the Beast, which has metamorphosed from a bedtime story known to every child into a megahit animated film (and an even bigger hit on video), a sound track, a theme-park attraction, an ice show, a lunch-box and T-shirt decoration and, as of last week, a Broadway musical. Actually, not just a Broadway musical but the costliest and most complex ever, not to mention maybe the most vapid, shallow and, yes, cartoonish...
...There is life beyond Bart. The scamp was the show's first star; his ripostes ("Eat my shorts") became T-shirt slogans. Bart is still the richest Simpsons character, but the purview has expanded to include all of Springfield, with 50 or so comic figures, from the Kwik-E-Mart's Apu Nahasapeemapetilan to the Kennedyesque Mayor Quimby to Krusty the Clown and his sadistic cartoon cohorts Itchy & Scratchy -- a wonderfully congested cosmos each week...
There he was preparing to cavort in the buff with Andie MacDowell. For a seasoned, swaggering movie heartthrob, that scene might have been an irresistible chance to show off, but for Hugh Grant the occasion proved mortifying. "The first time I took my shirt off on the set," he says, referring to the filming of Four Weddings and a Funeral, "the make-up artist asked, 'Do you want definition painted in?' What was even more tragic is that I would have liked it but could not face having it painted on in front of everyone else. I'm still getting...
...been marketed to since they could say "Atari" may not be as easy to convince. "Young people want something that's packaged in a way that they can understand and is compelling, but when they rip open the package they want something real," says Rob Nelson, 29, the T-shirt and acid-washed jeans poster boy of Lead or Leave, another upstart youth group...