Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mainland entertainment industry offered little in exchange. But today, the 12 Girls Band (which actually numbers 13, including one alternate) is ubiquitous in Japan. They star in commercials for chocolate and cell phones, comedians parody them on TV, and in what may be the most compelling proof of their fame, there's even a porn video featuring naked look-alikes...
...competition is about the music. This season, TIME had exclusive access to the Idols throughout their week, from Thursday, when rehearsals begin, through the tearful goodbye dinner on "Weird Wednesday," as it's called, when one more candidate goes home. There certainly is an earnest, hardworking kids-from-Fame vibe about the group. Their week is grueling, filled with song-selection sessions, rehearsals, run-throughs, commercial and promo shoots, performances and interviews. (Minors Trias and DeGarmo, 16, also spend three hours a day with a tutor.) But in ways subtle and more blatant, the singers are also getting persona coaching...
...greatest works of art are inevitably turned into kitsch, their fame exploited to sell the most banal products. Guernica adorns T shirts, the Mona Lisa is woven into welcome mats, Sunflowers brightens up your morning coffee mug. Edward Hopper's Nighthawks has suffered the same fate. Prints of the iconic 1942 painting of a gloomy diner have shown up in several generations of American college dorms - there's even a mouse pad. Has reproduction robbed the image of its morose power and reduced Hopper, one of America's greatest artists, to the ranks of the one-hit wonders...
Inventions of phrases like “liberal education” suggest that the review was not conceived as a document of pedagogical and intellectual innovation, rendering it instead an amalgam of actively duplicitous recommendations (creating the Harvard College Courses in part to make money and fame) and passively unfocused rambles. While the report emphasizes the theme of “globalization,” it skirts issues of moral reasoning in education, relegating them to a single paragraph recommending that the Dean “examine” how to teach “ethical and moral questions...
...educators. On the latest state-administered reading test, for example, 34% of black juniors scored "unsatisfactory," compared to just 13% of whites. Why? Ironically, McFrazier blames the end of desegregation. He argues that the closing of black neighborhood schools--with their traditions, yearbooks, mottoes, fight songs and halls of fame--ripped the centerpiece out of those communities. "It removed support systems," McFrazier says. Black role models--doctors and educators--left the neighborhood and moved to suburban communities, taking their achievement ethic with them. "That lowered expectations," says McFrazier. And even though the races now sit side by side, Brown...