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Known for his bow ties and his conservatism, Boorstin coined the phrase “pseudo-event” to describe a situation that was staged to get news coverage and mold the public’s perception. He offered the Nixon-Kennedy television debates as his prime example of a staged historical event...
...Carrie Bradshaw is every girl wrapped up in an oversized pink bow, the Larry David of “Curb” is Michael M. Grynbaum ’07 in a slightly balder, wealthier, more abrasive form. I was desperate; this night of psychological exploration must continue! Stay, I told my lady friends, and discover as much about my psyche as I have ascertained of yours! Premium cable will be our saving grace, a glorious vehicle of mutual understanding. Gender disparities and romantic befuddlement will melt away in the face of HBO original programming...
Broadbent roared back to take the fourth game 9-1, finishing one point with an emphatic kill that prompted Blumberg to bow from the stands in a “we’re not worthy” gesture...
...fled when Tahiti proved too spoiled--his self-imposed exile still serves as the last word in escape fantasies. Tahiti was the place where he hoped to find a native culture in tune with his most uncivilized impulses and where he could discharge energies, artistic, spiritual and phallic, that bow-tied Europe wanted no part of. Even D.H. Lawrence, that subsequent prophet of the primal against the merely civilized, made a kind of homage to Gauguin in later life, when he bolted for New Mexico...
...which are displayed the morning?s chapter headings - the table of contents for this magazine show. Osgood runs though the half-dozen main stories, then reads the news ?for today, February 15th, twenty-oh-four.? The show revels in mild eccentricities; some of the most prominent are Osgood?s bow tie, his occasional flights of doggerel and his persistent disdain for the locution ?two thousand four...