Word: tinsel
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...think that a different uniform—or a different level of play—would make him forget how to do it. Fitzpatrick’s performance on Sunday in his NFL debut was one of those moments in sports that comes straight from Hollywood. In fact, even Tinsel Town might have rejected this script for being too predictably cheesy. If you’re still a little fuzzy on the details of what the former Harvard signal caller actually accomplished in his first meaningful professional game, here’s a condensed version to bring...
...figure out what to do with it. When The Producers came calling, it was hardly a sure thing. A screen-to-stage adaptation of a Mel Brooks comedy three decades old, it has no hit songs and very little in the way of witty dialogue. The plot is tinsel-thin: Max, a crooked Broadway producer, and his nerdy accountant Leo concoct a scheme to make millions off a show that's calculated to flop...
...country, set up to meet a consumer demand: man wants a wife; woman wants a better life. But ultimately the commodity being traded is the desire to find happiness with another, a wish embodied in every wedding, even ones with plastic champagne glasses and fake flowers. Chang exposes the tinsel promises of the marriage industry, but he leaves his subjects their humanity?and their hope...
...argued for a genuine openness to the pleasures of pop culture. In "Notes on Camp," the 1964 essay that first made her name, she defined what was then a little-known set of arcane understandings--common within the gay world, not so common outside--in which trash and tinsel were venerated. Sontag could not have been more fascinated or fascinating...
Santa's workshop is anything but shipshape: sacks of bell-shaped ornaments cascade from tabletops, plastic buckets leak cartoon-colored chemicals onto the cement floor, and scattered tinsel is everywhere. Ding Hangjuan, a 43-year-old former peasant, kicks through the Yuletide wreckage. Ding set up her ornament factory in an abandoned schoolhouse six years ago to manufacture decorations for Christmas trees in the U.S. This year, Ding's 400 workers labored overtime to supply a brand-new market. "My buyers were once foreigners, but now 10% of what I make stays here in China," she says...