The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Frozen Mermaids, Scary Sirens

Funny writing from Maureen Dowd at the NYtimes.com

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Frozen Mermaids, Scary Sirens: "Others found the Oscars boring; I found the show slightly alarming.

I used to worry that women were heading toward one face. Sometimes in affluent settings, like the Oscars or the shoe department at Bergdorf's, you see a bunch of eerily similar women with oddly off-track features - Botox-smoothed Formica foreheads, collagen-protruding lips, surgically narrowed noses, taut jaws - who look like sisters from another planet.

It's like that futuristic Sylvester Stallone movie 'Demolition Man,' set in 2032, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as president and Taco Bell as the sole survivor of the Franchise Wars.

In the future, there will be only one face. And if the Oscars are predictive, there will be only one body - big chest, skinny body - and one style. It was bizarre how actress after actress came out in the same mermaid silhouette: a strapless sheath with a trumpet-flared or ruffled skirt."