Word: thinner
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...potential for fundamental change. Most recent entertainment trends have assumed an ever more fragmented audience. The Internet gave us personally targeted news. TV viewers scattered like the citizenry of Babel among hundreds of channels. Top 40 radio gave way to niche music. Movies were aimed at ever thinner demographic slices. Now, suddenly, the country is united as it hasn't been in years. And hipness--the defining value of pop culture as we know it--is at odds with unity, because it depends on establishing one's self as different from one's countrymen...
...wallets are thinner, and Bush is presenting a balanced, Social Security-preserving budget that includes Clinton-sized spending hikes for two areas that Bush knows the public loves: defense and education. Beyond that, goes the pitch, it all went back into the ailing economy, via the tax cut. Anything else - meaning, anything else that busts the budget - must be pork...
...advanced beard studies - the consideration of differentiated beard styles. Bork's neat, even prissy clip bespeaks something of a law-and-order personality deriving from the Ice People, even as it gestures a little confusingly in an Amish direction - not the full rectitudinous C. Everett Koop model, but a thinner version thereof...
...people used to be looked down upon so now they see white people as better," says Peter Ngumo, 23, a Nairobi clothing salesman. "They believe being light is the only way they can be appreciated." West African mothers still pinch their babies' noses in the hope they will grow thinner and more European-looking. Modeling pageants still shun African shapes and stipulate slim hips. Add the influence of advertising and television and, "as much as a lot of people don't like to admit it, the belief that light skin is more desirable is deep-rooted," says Sameer Ambegaonkar, managing...
...Forward we go, we lovers of early rock, into the past. And most of the young Philadelphians are still around: perhaps thinner of hair, thicker of girth, but pushing the same goods. Last I checked, Hy Lit, Bill Wright and Jerry Blavat were on the radio in my home town, moving the mandible, playing the oldies, reminding us and themselves of a time when rock 'n roll was even younger than we were, and held even more promise and threat...