Word: alongism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Kutiman's videos have exploded on the Web, drawing million of viewers in a matter of days, and offering amateur musicians (whose concerts are usually a party of one) some long sought-after attention. Before he came along, the Monster Love Bot had garnered a mere 4,627 hits on YouTube. Reggae artist Mighty Lion's "exclusive" a cappella clip fared even worse, attracting just 4,423 pairs of eyeballs since he uploaded it last March. But now, thanks to "This Is What It Became," the Lion and the Love Bot have been introduced to more than half a million...
...Rudd's performance. And one of its funniest corollaries is that it shows how hilarious and instructive a star this perennial supporting player can be. See, Judd, he can carry a movie. And he might carry the rest of us not-as-funny-as-we-think-we-are guys along with him. Why, if I Love You, Man is a hit, Paul Rudd could make gauche the new cool...
Danielle M. Gram ’11, who delivered Housing assignments for Currier House along with barely-clothed Currier residents, said the raucousness reached dangerously high levels...
...something backward-looking about even giving an award to a dead man. Yes, the work should be honored, but—and here is the crux of my argument—are prizes supposed to merely be reactive? Are they not supposed to encourage further production of literature along with merely honoring the good work of the past? Should there not be a proactive element to prizes? I have to say that, as unpopular as the Swedish Academy is these days, the Nobel Prize Committee has got it right in this respect: no posthumous prizes. They dole out their dough...
...Were Sarkozy to raise taxes to avoid cutting back the public sector - even under pressure of the recession - he'd be admitting the left's policies were right all along, and surrendering his political raison d'être," says Dominique Reynié, director of Paris think tank Foundation for Political Development. "The anti-Sarkozy front has gotten so wide and even trendy that it's blinding people to hard realities. First, France's 74% debt to GNP level can't go higher without collapsing, so the margin for relief effort is tiny. Second, the recession is causing pain worldwide...