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Bad scene.("My Scene" Barbie)
WHAT did your kids get for Christmas? My daughter--not yet four years old--got a whore. Okay, not a real prostitute. Not even a pretend one. She merely got a doll that dresses like one. Oh, and spare me the eye-rolling about how I've become a curmudgeon. I've been to Las Vegas, I've ambled through the seedier parts of cities, and I've quaffed more than a few cocktails at the right (or wrong) bars; I know what hookers look like. No, I have never sampled their wares, but while I've also never ridden an elephant, I've been to enough zoos to know what they look like. In short, this slattern effigy my daughter opened on Christmas morning (we do Chanuka and Christmas at the Goldbergs') was a gum-snapping, six-inch-heeled, F-me-pump-wearing ho. Fo sho.
She got it from a nice lady (a nanny of one of my daughter's friends) who was trying to do a nice thing. But the moment we saw the "My Scene" Barbie, grumbles erupted from everyone--except of course my daughter, who shrieked with ear-piercing delight. The doll came with a little disk full of shiny plastic beads (presumably for her hair). "What are these?" my daughter excitedly asked. Before I could answer, my wife said, "I think they're birth-control pills."
In the December issue of Texas Monthly, Virginia Postrel penned an insightful little essay about--of all places--Plano, Texas. One of her basic points is that Plano's fairly conservative residents oppose gay marriage not because they are vexed about sodomy or Biblical ...
- Richard Florida, Virginia Postrel, and FT Editor- In-Chief Andrew Gowers...
- News wire article from: AScribe Business & Economics News Service May 31, 2005 700+ words
...TORONTO, May 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Social commentator Virginia Postrel and 'creative class' economist Richard Florida are among...Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent" - Virginia Postrel, Author, "The Substance of Style" (Harper Collins...
- No, Virginia.(Virginia Postrel and immigration policy)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: National Review December 31, 1995 700+ words
VIRGINIA Postrel, editor of Reason, is understandably distressed in her letter...Mrs. Postrel seems to feel cruelly ill-used. Is this the same Virginia Postrel who suggested in the December Reason that because NR's extract...
- Richard Florida, Virginia Postrel, and FT Editor InChief Andrew Gowers Featured...
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire May 31, 2005 700+ words
(From AScribe) TORONTO -- Social commentator Virginia Postrel and 'creative class' economist Richard Florida...Class: The New Global Competition for Talent" - Virginia Postrel, Author, "The Substance of Style" (Harper Collins...
- It's a style thing: style really does stand for something.(Hot seat: Virginia...
- Magazine article from: Entrepreneur Williams, Geoff March 1, 2004 700+ words
...least that's what you'd think, until you start reading Virginia Postrel's The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic...just that it's important and sometimes more important. VIRGINIA POSTREL: I'm not saying it's more important than substance...
- Proper planning: Virginia Postrel argues that static planning doesn't work for...
- Magazine article from: Research Uzelac, Ellen May 1, 2004 700+ words
Virginia Postrel has been called one of America's top "thought leaders." For over 10 years, she edited the "think" magazine, Reason. In...
- STYLE'S POSTREL GIRL.(Virginia Postrel)
- Magazine article from: WWD Dubin, Alesandra August 14, 2003 700+ words
NEW YORK -- "Some people would be appalled by the choices I make," says financial reporter Virginia Postrel, whose latest book, "The Substance of Style," in stores Sept. 5, celebrates the abundance of aesthetic choices in today...
- Tim Duggan.(buys rights to book by Virginia Postrel)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly Baker, John F. June 19, 2000 700+ words
...smart" book on contemporary culture called Look and Feel: Value Culture & Conflict in the New Age of Aesthetics by Virginia Postrel, a columnist for the New York Times and Forbes, discussing why appearances are key in the contemporary zeitgeist...
- STEP inside design Presents the Stretch Conference for Creatives; Featuring...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 9, 2004 700+ words
...new whether it's business tactics, design skills or project-based learning. Speakers and workshop leaders include Virginia Postrel, Author and Columnist for The New York Times; Dana Arnett, Chief Creative Officer at VSA Partners; Paul Brunato, frog...
- Ending the church's silence on divorce: Barbara Dafoe Whitehead confronts our...
- Magazine article from: Christianity Today Miller, Kevin D. November 17, 1997 700+ words
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead confronts our postmarriage culture. The world first took note of Barbara Dafoe Whitehead when she published her provocative article "Dan Quayle Was Right" in the Atlantic Monthly in 1993. The piece did more than defend...
- Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe. Why There Are No Good Men Left: the Romantic Plight...
- Magazine article from: Booklist Huntley, Kristine December 1, 2002 700+ words
Dec. 2002. 224p. index. Broadway, $23.95 (0-7679-0639-X). 306.7 Whitehead, author of The Divorce Culture (1997), tackles a new hot topic: the single woman's search for love. She points out that women are putting off marriage until they have accomplished career goals, which leads to not only a later
Source: HighBeam Research, Bad scene.("My Scene" Barbie)