Supermodel (Janice Dickinson's claim; Musexpot

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SUPERMODEL (continued)

   From the Sunday NEW YORK POST, 18 August 2002, pg. 57, col. 1:

   GISELE, Naomi, Kate--none of you would be where you are now without Janice
Dickinson.
   In "No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First
Supermodel," the pioneering princess of high fashion describes how she set
the standard for debauchery--and invented the term that's now a household
word.
   "Monique begged me to slow down.  'Who do ypu think you are?' she asked in
her thick French accent.  'Supermon?'  'No,' I said.  'Supermodel.'  And lo
and behold!  I'd coined a phrase!"

   Janice--"supermodel" is a word, not a phrase.
   As I stated years ago right here on ADS-L, VOGUE used "super model" in a
1972 cover story about African-American model Naomi Simms.  The term was
popularized in the 1970s by PAGE SIX of the NEW YORK POST.  Anthony
Haden-Guest would later do a 1980s NEW YORK magazine story on supermodels;
Carole Alt of that article later believed that _she_ was the first
supermodel.
   I realize it's not important to the NEW YORK POST's PAGE SIX (which today
has a story on what Drew Barrymore is eating), but it might want to get this
thing correct and actually speak with the penniless word guy here.

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MUSEXPOT

   From the NEW YORK OBSERVER, 19 August 2002, pg. 19, col. 4:

   ...they're at the Culture Project at 45 Bleeker seeing their comic
musexpot Sarah Silverman in her one-woman show, _Jesus Is Magic_.

(Can we agree on this one?  Sarah Silverman is the first "musexpot"?--ed.)