Word: billboard
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...fast rendering his many controversies irrelevant - grossed $54.5 million in its first weekend in the U.S. What's more, 8 Mile and Eminem's performance has been generating serious Oscar buzz (yes, it really has), and the sound track from his movie went straight to the top of the Billboard 200. If there had been a Best Crossover Act at the MTV Awards, he would have had a lock on it. As it happens, he had to be satisfied with three of those ungainly trophies - Best Album (for The Eminem Show), Best Male and Best Hip-Hop Artist...
...marketed ourselves as when applying here. As Walter says of Donny in The Big Lebowski: “You’re like a child that wanders into the middle of a movie!” We’re Donny, folks. Like middle-school students looking at a billboard for Camel Lights, Harvard students are easy prey for anyone selling us the “stereotypical college experience” of partying hearty. How sad. How misguided. After all, it’s clear to anyone that if colleges were characters from Lebowski, Harvard wouldn?...
...impossible to remember them all. And that’s what I’m thinking as I walk up Holyoke Street and wonder why this girl is smiling at me. Whoever she is, she sure looks glad to see me—there’s a billboard-wide grin on her face, and she’s practically barreling into my arms. I start to smile back blankly and my mind races like Guy Pearce’s in Memento. Do I KNOW this person? Think! Think! Who IS this...
...modern home, growing in size in proportion to one's SUV, filled with technology for those too lazy even to open their window blinds and flooded with the mind-numbing drivel of billboard-size televisions, seems more a reflection of the external world's chaos than an escape from it [LIFESTYLE, Oct. 14]. Sadly, as you noted, this new American home is not about "family cohesion" but about "accommodating different lifestyles." It may not be the American Dream, but I like my cozy walls, miniature television and blinds that I actually walk across the room to adjust. JENNY WISNIEWSKI Wauwatosa...
...former cocktail waitress from Burleston, Texas, who won Fox's American Idol talent contest along with a record deal with RCA, hit the royalties jackpot with A Moment Like This, the song she performed on the show's finale. The tune rose from its early slot of 52 on Billboard's Hot 100 to No. 1. Next month she starts a U.S. tour with nine former rivals, including runner-up Justin Guarini. By the time that's wrapped up and Clarkson has finished her first full-length album, contestants for Idol rip-off shows should be just about ready...