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Ansafone
Yet another technological convenience that enables us to avoid close encounters with real people. |
Anti-hero
A spiteful slug whose utter lack of nobility endears him to a contemporary audience. |
Antique Shop
A cluttered walk-in closet frequented by lovers of objects used by dead people. |
Arrested Development
Prerequisite for success as a radio DJ or a social satirist. |
Art Deco
Fred Astaire's natural habitat, surviving to this day in a few urban centres in the U.S. where spire-topped towers still soar above the glass-and-concrete boxes. A screwball comedy in chrome and masonry, capable of whisking us back to an imaginary 1936 where Nick and Nora Charles are still chatting at the bar, and we absentmindedly collide with a leggy young redhead who flashes a wry Ginger Rogers smile. We know we've returned to the present when the redhead summons the authorities. |
Art Gallery
A boutique for the merchandising of reputations, of which art is the incidental by-product. |
Arthritis
A persistent headache in the joints; nature's way of rewarding those who have lived sensibly enough to attain an advanced age. |
Artificial Flavour
A chemical concoction with the power to make lemonade taste more like lemons than lemons do. |
Artificial Insemination
Procreation without recreation. |
Artist
1. Anyone talented enough to win foundation grants and critics' kudos by making an impression at the right parties. 2. Anyone who tweaks middle-class proprieties with the intention of generating free career publicity. 3. Anyone with a recording contract. 4. A questing soul who pursues a singular vision, creates something of permanent value and dies with the rent unpaid. |
