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This is book No. 5 in the Clique series, a fascinating, almost anthropological exploration of life in the popular girls' set at a rich New York private school. The girls do nothing but obsess about boys, clothes and makeup, talk in phonetically rendered dialogue ("Ehmagawd!") and stab each other in the back. They're scared of each other, but they're stuck with each other--it's like Sartre with lip gloss. "The Pretty Committee girls were like wild animals," thinks Claire, the most sympathetic one (she actually has one dorky, noncool friend). "If they smelled fear, they'd pounce...
...superhuman strength--he was the product of a monstrous government medical experiment--mad fighting skills and a cruel sense of humor, and he used them to manipulate the media, assassinate officials in creative ways, stab people with big shiny knives and blow up buildings. Early in the comics he rescued a woman named Evey from government thugs, and she became his sidekick; later on he tortured Evey, to "help" her see his point of view. V was a freedom fighter, no question, but Moore never let you forget that he was also a terrorist, and as such he was both...
...like Survivor...but with food,†jokes Wint. The coolest wins $10,000 and an iMac. Wint’s favorite opponent is the 17-year-old pro skateboarder, “Dylan,†who once compared a skate park to a jungle in a stab at profundity. “Is that what 14-year-old girls are into these days?†Wint asks. The March 2006 issue features a handwriting analysis of competitors’ signatures. The graphologist’s prediction for the student living upstairs at the Fox?...
...mere branding. A current exhibition, by New York City artist Vanessa Beecroft, features images of female nudes contorted to form (what else?) the letters that make up Louis Vuitton's name. Future exhibitions will revolve around the themes of travel, art and fashion. Purists may deplore this retailer's stab at art curating, but worldly tourists may welcome it as a consummately modern form of multitasking...
...During Common Casting week, actors wait their turn to audition from 6 p.m. until midnight. The process works with surprising efficiency; hopefuls sign up to audition for specific plays, they are called up a handful at a time and given script excerpts, or "sides," for their preliminary stab at stardom...