Word: appealling
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...much as UFC perpetuates aggressive behavior and brutality, it not only increases the violence of our collective experience, but it also changes the way in which we view spectator sports and athletes in general. For many of us, the appeal of watching professional athletes stems from our amateur days of childhood athletics; we watch our favorite baseball players because we once wanted to be one of them (It is hard to find a youngster who does not want to be a professional athlete when they grow up). Ultimate Fighting changes this relationship by providing a sporting spectacle that few people...
Televising the Oscars (the ceremonies had been broadcast on radio for some time) represented a convenient symbiosis. But the merger of film and television presented producers with a formidable challenge: how to create a program that would appeal to both the cinephile—deigning for one night to watch, shame of shames, television—and the devout TV viewer whose remote control happened to lead him there...
This is particularly clear on the pre-release single “I Won’t Kneel.” While this track manages to capture some of the glamorous, 1980s female-driven rock it strives for, it ultimately progresses with no distinct purpose, lacking the sex appeal so crucial in such anthems—providing a musical androgyny not quirky enough to be endearing, and not striking enough to be engaging...
Indeed, much as each song seems to rotate on the axis of a strong chorus, the album as a whole hinges upon the success and appeal of one or two singles. “Falling In” and “Halfway Gone” establish themselves on first listen as the album’s peaks, and much of the rest of the album’s sound and subject matter mirror the highlights of these two songs...
Just as “Warped Passages” appealed to the lover of literature, so too will “Hypermusic Prologue” appeal to the music-lovers of the world and bring elements of science into an artistic scene typically void of such empirical discourse...