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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Singled out, crop, hotel heiress
London, Feb 26 (PTI) Veteran actor Antony Hopkins has taken a pot shot at Paris Hilton and the current crop of celebrity socialites, comparing them to soulless "machines". The Silence of the Lambs actor is fed up with skinny models and stars on the red carpet who lack substance and hes singled out the hotel heiress for appearing to have nothing "going on up there", Contactmusic reported.
"Were living in a pretty strange time. I went into a shop to buy my wife some clothes and I wanted them gift-wrapped.
And they had this big plasma screen on with these women on the catwalk. I thought, ''God almighty, what have we become?'' These girls - anorexic, walking like machines, no soul," Hopkins said.
"You look at fashion magazines and you think, ''What are we living in?'' You look at the red carpet, Paris Hilton, you know, these people and you think, ''Is there anything going on up there?'' Its a mass enslavement and its kind of fascism. And its the androgyny of it; the androgyny of the human soul.
I dont think people think any more. But maybe I''m just old," he added.
Could you please explain to me the emboldened parts?
Though I know "crop" means "group" and "singled out" means "isolated" and "heiress" means "a woman who got money from their elders maybe a hereditary property or money.
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"Were living in a pretty strange time. I went into a shop to buy my wife some clothes and I wanted them gift-wrapped.
And they had this big plasma screen on with these women on the catwalk. I thought, ''God almighty, what have we become?'' These girls - anorexic, walking like machines, no soul," Hopkins said.
"You look at fashion magazines and you think, ''What are we living in?'' You look at the red carpet, Paris Hilton, you know, these people and you think, ''Is there anything going on up there?'' Its a mass enslavement and its kind of fascism. And its the androgyny of it; the androgyny of the human soul.
I dont think people think any more. But maybe I''m just old," he added.
Could you please explain to me the emboldened parts?
Though I know "crop" means "group" and "singled out" means "isolated" and "heiress" means "a woman who got money from their elders maybe a hereditary property or money.
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crop = a group To "single out" = In this context, means "to use a specific person as an example of a particular problem or characteristic" "hotel heiress" = Refers specifically to Paris Hilton, who inherited her wealth from her family's business, the worldwide chain of Hilton luxury hotels
- crop = a group To "single out" = In this context, means "to use a specific person as an example of a particular problem or characteristic" "hotel heiress" = Refers specifically to Paris Hilton, who inherited her wealth from her family's business, the worldwide chain of Hilton luxury hotels
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crop = a group
To "single out" = In this context, means "to use a specific person as an example of a particular problem or characteristic"
"hotel heiress" = Refers specifically to Paris Hilton, who inherited her wealth from her family's business, the worldwide chain of Hilton luxury hotels
To "single out" = In this context, means "to use a specific person as an example of a particular problem or characteristic"
"hotel heiress" = Refers specifically to Paris Hilton, who inherited her wealth from her family's business, the worldwide chain of Hilton luxury hotels
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