Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Audience demographics are uncannily indicative of a band's personality in concert; there's no "opposites attract" rule observed at live music shows. Unwound's followers at first glance were very into themselves. On further inspection, their narcissism was sickeningly omnipresent. These devotees perspired a style-savvy indie rock posturing not unlike the weight-of-the-world-on-my-shoulders instrumentalists they deified. "I'm cooler than you" was the unspoken mantra of the evening for both band and fan alike...
...After, we wanted to douse it in charcoal fluid and light it, but we though it would attract too much attention," he said Instead, the group said it planned to "mutilate the chicken and just throw the pieces around...
...What may attract attention and raise pulse rates, however, is that the latest re-translations in the Loeb series, which are published in both their original language (either Greek or Latin) and English, are more sexually explicit and easier to understand than the older texts they replace...
Universal executives believe the Lewinsky scandal may attract more customers. "Of course, we could have been hurt if Clinton had resigned," says Universal Pictures chairman Casey Silver. "People might have been so despondent and depressed that they wouldn't have wanted to go see the movie." But politics or even prurience may matter little to moviegoers. Studio surveys indicated that only 3% had read the book and that audiences rarely mentioned the Clinton connection even when they'd seen the film. At an early screening in Seattle less than 1% noted similarities to scandals in the White House. Says Nichols...
...Churchill, Wendell Willkie--he personally directed coverage at critical times with a feverish and occasionally suffocating intensity. And on those subjects his magazines could be startlingly biased, even polemical. On most issues, however, Luce was relatively open-minded, deferential to his editors, receptive to many conflicting views, eager to attract the talents of gifted writers whatever their ideologies. His own politics were, on the whole, only mildly and fairly flexibly conservative...