go-see n.— «Once a girl is signed with a big agency (in New York, where the biggest are located, this would include IMG, Elite, Next, Women and DNA), she is sent on what is called “go-sees”—castings for photographers, editorials and...
chicette n.— «The Daily, Fashion MINI and Fashion Week Daily are seeking a new chicette (or chicetto) to join our editorial staff. We are looking for a reporter who is as obsessed with fashion as we are, knowledgeable about the key...
Broken Pipe n.— «It would be foolish to think that Browne transformed BP from a dirty oil company to a progressive, renewable, squeaky-clean energy source. On the contrary, BP has a dismal environmental record—critics jokingly refer to...
spalon n.— «The Day Spa Association has set guidelines designed to educate consumers about what they should expect from a day spa. “These guidelines clearly explain the difference between a true day spa and ‘spalons’, a term used to...
news game n.— «It’s a kind of game we call news games.…They’re really like a video game equivalent of an editorial cartoon. They’re small scale, in-and-out quick games, like little editorials on current events...
heartsink n.— «Heartsink patients may fit into four categories, the editorial says. Dependent clingers, entitled demanders, manipulative help-rejecters and self-destructive deniers. They can overwhelm and exasperate their doctors by their...