List says:
Column 1:
Gender ambiguity
The prefix cyber-
Poetry slams
Bill Gates’s electrofied bunker home
Absolutely Fabulous
Raconteur cabbies
Being the host city of the Olympic Games
Martin Amis
Alumni of The Harvard Lampoon
Upscale taquerias
The “genius” of Brian Wilson
Fiestaware
Local color
Wood-burning pizza ovens
Field trips to see Peter and the Wolf
Anything called a “summerfest”
Agassi vs. Sampras
NBC talk shows
The prefix über-
Town meeting–style interfaces with elected officials
Pliny the Elder
Montana-based writers
Designer lesbianism
Designer Buddhism
The large intestine
Column 2:
Morphing
Mangoes
Appearing at a public function unwashed and on the arm of Juliette Lewis
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Every Broadway musical since Evita
Digitized family albums
Cruise control
Middle-relief pitching
Heather Locklear’s galvanizing effect on Melrose Place
Duets
Anyone dubbed “the Sexiest Man Alive”
Striped bass
Quick-cutting
Zines
Jennifer Jason Leigh’s range
Virtual reality
Heavily choreographed concerts at which the featured performer wears a headset microphone and is backed by thirty-five dancers
Sex on the beach
Sex that lasts four hours
Column 3:
Rowing crew
Michael Graves
Youthful world-weariness
Reggie Miller
Telling it like it is
Dessert wines
Whit Stillman
Any British woman described as a beauty
The Baseball Hall of Fame
Fame
Feisty backbenchers
Home schooling
1968
The signed editorials in The New York Times
Demi Moore’s body
Jay Leno’s comeback
Manufacturer rebates
Hootie & the Blowfish
All-you-can-eat shrimp
Comic books
The smell of fresh-cut grass
Instantaneous Wall Street jokes about national tragedies
Driving a 4×4 on gravel
Amusement parks
Corinthian leather
Longevity
Gay stand-up comedy
Having a “funny” back page
Photos:
Alan Greenspan
Björk
Beaujolais nouveau
Lisa Marie Presley’s look
Converting to Islam in jail
Melissa Etheridge
Martin Lawrence
Christo
Righteousness about TicketMaster
Vine-ripened tomatoes
Rain forests
Pitt the Younger
Homespun American wisdom
Lattes
Pat Riley
The white Power Ranger
Shaved head
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