Word: stepfordized
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...that this plan met with misgivings from teachers and parents would be an understatement. Would the kids use the technology to cheat? Would they become cyborg Stepford children? Would they, Brooklyn being Brooklyn, get mugged for their laptops after class? "I was worried about how it was going to affect their focus in the classroom," remembers Rebecca Boucher, who has four kids at Packer. "Their interaction, their basic eye-to-eye contact, even. Was it going to become an isolating experience? I was very unclear how it was going to work." The teachers were the ones who would have...
...center, as Mullah Omar might imagine, but in the sorority houses. A 1996 study that appeared in the student personnel administrators' Journal found that 80% of Greek women in colleges were binge drinkers, compared with 35% of non-Greek women. Now sororities are no longer training grounds for Stepford wives, but neither are they redoubts of militant feminism. Within them, bingeing seems to be more of a nihilistic escape than a rebellion of any kind. As a sorority member on spring break explained to me, she and her friends binge because otherwise they would be "totally bored...
...Britney, she is certainly comfortable on camera, and her Stepford radiance is easy on the eyes. But Tamra Davis' movie stinks. It's about three Louisiana teens--the geek, the freak and the princess--and Britney plays the geek. Escorted by a dude with 'tude (Anson Mount), they go West in search of stardom, performing their sassy act in bars and discovering that sisterhood is booty-full...
...push a cart up and down the supermarket aisles, drifting like a Stepford wife past shelves dense with a hundred varieties of mayonnaise and a thousand brands of soup and ten thousand variations of orange juice and a hundred thousand nuances of ice cream: All the metaphysical abundance and diversity of the universe organized, canned, packaged, frozen, bar-coded, neatly awaiting the pleasure of our consumption...
...here's hoping the producers and editors of "Survivor" realize what they've got left, and go with it. Three toughened, hungry veterans glaring each other in the sunken eye. (It's "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire" meets "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"!) Tina, the Stepford Mom, Colby, the champ, and the chef...