Word: fide
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...sheer buzz alone, new media are showing some promising results. After ABC's hits Lost and Desperate Housewives were downloaded on iTunes, their Nielsen ratings went up 17% and 18%, respectively. And although hard figures aren't available, NBC executives credit iTunes with helping The Office become a bona fide hit. (Switching it from Tuesday to Thursday night might have helped...
...most egregious example of the hypocritical morality that pervades the movie. “Running Scared” is not content to be just a heavy dose of stomach-turning and improbable (apparently people can rent ice arenas for shoot-outs, who knew?) violence. No, to establish a bona fide hero, it flings young Oleg in harm’s way with abandon to allow Joey to prove what a good guy he is by repeatedly protecting him. The result is that the audience is periodically reminded how horrible all of this carnage really is, and then asked to enjoy...
...already spent time under the covers, but it will be a few years before he can say how it makes him feel with any honesty. Instead he makes like a mini-Usher and sings as if entertainment were the only thing in the world that matters. On the bona fide radio hits--Run It!, Yo (Excuse Me Miss), Gimme That--he has enough discipline to let the hooks do their work, while on the remaining tracks his charm and clean voice rise above a synthesizer that comes on stronger than Colt 45--era Billy Dee Williams...
...serious business. HCS President Steven M. Melendez ’07 indicated that those looking for real love through an algorithm may be barking up the wrong tree. He said that Datamatch is simply a “fun activity” that offers the bonus of a bona fide compatibility comparison with fellow undergraduates. HCS Project Director Grant W. Dasher ’09 offered some insight into the juiciest bit of the program: those far-out questions. “A bunch of us from HCS and associated student groups get together with a bunch of pizza...
...early October with the media blitz that will accompany Peter Pan in Scarlet when it's published in English in the U.K. and the U.S., and in translation in markets across Europe and Asia. Low profile or not, the fact is McCaughrean, 54, is already a bona fide publishing phenomenon with more than 130 titles and a roster of literary awards to her long, unwieldy name. Born in suburban north London, McCaughrean has written for as long as she can remember. But it took a couple of false starts as a secretary and, disastrously, a schoolteacher before she settled into...