Word: blackout
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only to realize she was “incredibly behind. People were falling down drunk.” So when you get right down to it, maybe people love The Game simply because they are too drunk on a pleasant Saturday morning to know any better. Because they are blackout when they would normally be sleeping through breakfast.But as Aidan, a junior, notes scornfully, fans in her native Oklahoma “actually use their tickets to go to the game. They don’t just drink to oblivion...
...those opened as their weekends' top grossers. Granted, to get that number into double figures I'm including V for Vendetta, which is after all about a defaced creature in a cave who plots violent revenge on his enemies, and Saw III, which would require a blackout on 3,000 screens to keep it from being declared #1 on Sunday. But the very first weekend of January, Hostel emerged triumphant over King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia. Two and four weeks later, Underworld: Evolution (a sequel) and When a Stranger Calls (a remake) reigned. In April, Scary Movie...
That gives us 67 hours of blackout, by my calculations...
...this echelon of higher education, even the party scene reeks of this productive mentality. Many students go out with the intention of “blackout raging” (a.k.a. “drinking excessively”) several nights a week...
...laid-back. Programmed within an inch of its life, is more like it. The choreography, the elaborate video presentations, even Madonna's patter - there's almost no sense any more of an artist interacting spontaneously with the audience. Even the way the concert ends - her big hit "Hung Up," blackout, lights go up, goodbye! Not even an encore. Sure, encores have gotten to be as programmed as anything else, but at least there was the illusion of the artist repaying the audience for its spontaneous enthusiasm...