Word: centricity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Just ask “Survivor” for their leftovers! Regardless, by the end of the episode Sun has found her ring, which she’d accidentally buried with the passenger messages. She cries for happiness. You know, I hope that next time we have a Sun-centric episode, the writers give her more to do than cry and whimper. Kate attempts to take the bottle and read the messages from the passengers, whining about how she “never got to say good-bye.” Looks like somebody has the hots for Sawyer...
...baseball? Actually, it's Moneyball, Michael Lewis' best-seller about how Oakland A's manager Billy Beane built a top team by picking players on the basis of their stats, not their reputations. Republican National Committee chairman and Baltimore Orioles fan Ken Mehlman is applying Moneyball's stats-centric strategy to his own game. "Politics, like baseball, for years was less effective than it could be because you didn't try to quantify things," he told TIME. Mehlman managed Bush-Cheney '04, which set "metrics" for making phone calls and knocking on doors, and tracked ads on spreadsheets. He obsesses...
...poised for widespread success. Since 1999’s “A2G” EP launched the group into the ranks of underground stardom with the anti-mainstream anthem “Deception,” Blackalicious has gone on a solidly successful run. They dropped the afro-centric opus “Nia” in 2000, followed by their genre-bending breakthrough “Blazing Arrow” in 2002. On “The Craft,” the two have branched out even further, leaving the straightforward hip-hop vibes of earlier work...
...Nagin sometimes comes across as impatient or irascible, or his agenda as hurried or business-centric, his allies say, it's because New Orleans' fiscal problems--which he has said will result in layoffs of possibly 3,000 municipal workers--are so pressing. In a letter to Blanco, Nagin recently laid out his vision for a new, more prosperous New Orleans. It includes creating charter schools, loosening restrictions on the city's ability to levy taxes and passing state-income-tax exemptions for manufacturers who set up plants to process some of the 23 million tons of raw materials--such...
...time jazz-improv section. And yet, whenever Versace was not singing or playing, he tended to retreat to the wall behind the stage—or, worse, to the band room. This behavior, reminiscent of Zeppelin’s infamous departure from the stage during a performance of drum-centric “Moby Dick,” was somewhat bizarre, as Statham seemed so involved when on stage. Scofield himself was inventive as always; his guitar lines were mind-bendingly complicated at times, syncopated and fluid at others. Still, he never really abandons the post-bop vocabulary...