Word: slimming
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After two generations of women's studies, the pickings are getting slim. All the major and most of the minor figures, from Pandora to Paglia, have been covered. But the gender genie is out of the bottle, and locating yet another of history's unsung females is now a mainstream imperative...
...works lush electronic orchestrations like Andrea Parker does, I believe we can work something out. In any case, you really have no choise but to work something out with someone as brazen as Parker. Unfazed by the mob-wide surge for skippy techno, she announced her hatred of Fatboy Slim to the media (market self-sabotage--how will the masses relate?). Just as untimid in her work, she had Depeche Mode, Lamb, the Orb, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Steve Reich come under remixing at her hands before she began work on Kiss My Arp, her full-length debut. A session vocalist...
...your partners that the company is on the fast track to success, confess you are not the most qualified leader, sell your equity (for a reasonable price that includes "future earnings"), and go to law school; D) Wake up. Realize your chances of hitting the big time are probably slim to none, dump your equity, resume attending class, and (hopefully) graduate...
Chances are slim that you will soon be hearing the following line spoken in theatergoing homes across America: "Hey, honey, let's grab the kids, fly to New York and catch that new musical The Dead!" Yet, oddly, a musicalized version of James Joyce's somber short story has been one of the most anticipated events of the off-Broadway season. A star-filled cast (Christopher Walken, Blair Brown, Sally Ann Howes) has perked up interest in what is either the most intriguing or the stupidest idea for a musical in years...
...right--as we move into the 21st century, we are steadily getting pudgier. Fat, some would have you believe, is the fifth horseman of the Apocalypse, riding right alongside War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. And it's immensely lucrative. Do you think the shrewd folks at Jenny Craig, Slim-Fast and Weight Watchers could make billions scaring the bejesus out of you about pestilence? Make no mistake--fat phobia is a big moneymaker for those who have figured out how to promote and cash in on self-hatred...