Word: zippering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...routine once was. Created before Sept. 11 and debuting just weeks after, 24 captured the country's edgy mood, and not just because it was about terrorism. With its breathless real-time format and multiscreens, 24 reflects the same information-overload media culture that gave us the zipper and screens within screens on cable news. The computers work a little too well, the Los Angeles traffic is suspiciously light, and Jack Bauer never has to take a leak, but Kiefer Sutherland gives Jack psychological weight in the most outlandish situations, racing against a ticking clock that tolls...
...sociology is just gothic!" Doug's ability to offend--gracefully, brilliantly, effortlessly--went into overdrive when confronted by high-minded Dixie earnestness. One year he unveiled his version of the Clinton Memorial at a Renaissance workshop, with Hillary Clinton sitting in the front row: a statue of an unzipped zipper. Doug reveled and rebelled in his Southernness. He wrote a novel about his grandmother, a textile-union militant. He called his comic strip Kudzu, because he loved the twisted symbolism of that vine. He was enthralled by irony, and I wish Doug were around to reflect on the gothic ridiculousness...
...most challenging scene he has ever shot was for the 1998 movie “There’s Something about Mary.” “Don’t see it,” he added, referring to his memorable clash between his penis and the zipper of his pants. Even after the trials of the roast and a tour of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, Stiller still emerged with a positive opinion of the University and said that...
...vacation used to mean unflattering, bulky outerwear, frequently in embarrassing neon colors. Thankfully, in the past few years a handful of designers, including Prada and Chanel, have aimed to make the slopes more fashionable. The zipper-covered jacket, above, from Escada Sport is sturdy enough for the snow but sleek enough for the city...
...still possible to divide the news calendar into BF and AF-Before Fox and After Fox. Much of what you see on TV news exists because of Fox, and not just the opinion shows. The graphics, the sound effects, the general tone of news is set by Fox. The zipper-the visual signature of the anxious too-much-information era-was first introduced by Fox on the morning of 9/11. First by moments, but in TV news, moments are everything. As with so many things, Fox was slightly quicker than its rivals to detect, and direct, the next crank...