Word: flash-in-the-pan
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...long-term vision. Australians, spoiled by boom times that fiscal discipline and staunch leadership had delivered over the course of the previous decade, treated themselves to a new pair of shoes when electing Rudd back in late 2007. Great marketing in the purest sense. As a result of flash-in-the-pan stimulus packages, we are saddled now with terrifying, record debt. Rudd has also been lecturing other countries on how to wrestle with global challenges - and perhaps is given a fleeting audience in China and the U.S. But trying to be all things to all people...
...contrast, the new calendar encourages students to compete for flash-in-the-pan job opportunities too short to do any real good. For those who have no desire to spend the break doing something careerist or academic—and I’d venture to guess I’m not the only one—three weeks in January is too long to spend on campus. The result is that people will be stuck spending the vacation’s entirety at home, watching the same episode of SportsCenter four times each morning, instead of reuniting with their...
...helium heads” resonates powerfully over a doughy beat layered beneath the sampled bells of Bob James’s “Take me to the Mardi Gras.” Del seems more than happy to let the flash-in-the-pan artists “stroll down the golden road [even though] you know they’ll hate it when they find out the bricks is golden plated...
...Barbie Girl” fame, leaps to mind. Apparently, the eponymous doll serves as a metaphor for soulless corporate conformity, a more resonant message with Harvard’s highbrow listeners. The choice of Third Eye Blind was made in the spirit of universality, eschewing the flash-in-the-pan noise of Radiohead’s “OK Computer” or the ambitious, minor rapper known as Jay-Z. Stephan Jenkins, 3EB’s frontman, limns accessible pop music around such depressing subject matter as suicide and methamphetamine abuse. Who better to head up our spring...
...Wilson said that Flash-in-the-Pan Production is not done yet. A few new clips, perhaps about the World Series or the Harvard-Yale game, are in the works...