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Cosmetics
An arsenal of facial enhancements commonly applied in excess by women and male celebrities who feel the need to look embalmed. |
Cost-effective
The only type of activity that would be worth pursuing if accountants ruled the world, which of course they do. |
Country and Western Music
1. A twanging harmonic concoction, American as hominy grits, that once chronicled the simple bovine joys and miseries of wayward Baptists, cowboys and truck drivers; much beloved in the lands beyond the urban fringe, wherever the corn grew high and honest folks ate pork bar-b-q; redolent of summer nights on the road, fifty miles from the nearest honky-tonk and even farther from home. 2. Slick pop tunes currently produced by marketing experts for a mass audience of redneck (q.v.) wannabes. |
Country Club
An enclosed oasis where, with a little influence and a substantial cash outlay, one may qualify to hit golf balls in the presence of local dignitaries and their spouses. |
Couple
The basic unit of social validity at restaurants, country inns, the theatre, and other pleasant destinations; solitary folks unwilling to break the unspoken taboo may still find a warm welcome at psychiatrists' offices and funeral homes. |
Crack
Kiddie cocaine; a potentially lethal substance peddled by juvenile street tycoons to their restless peers, who find themselves overwhelmed by a life of compulsory education and Saturday-morning television. |
Craftsperson
An arts graduate gone to pasture, esp. after a nerve-jangling tussle with the business world. A placid soul who seeks a life-enhancing alternative to sweating over contracts and deadlines, then finds it by creating ceramic vegetables or gingham bunnies. |
Creativity
Currently a code word for self-expression, which itself is a code word for self-indulgence. |
Credit Card
Plastic passport to the valley of the shadow of debt. |
Credit Rating
A confidential report card circulated among creditors for the purpose of ascertaining whether a given consumer has incurred enough debts to be considered a sound risk. |
