Word: heydays
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...enjoy continued success - most recently, their songs formed the basis of the movie smash Mamma Mia! - but at the Hotel Rival the connection is barely discernible. One of the group's albums is always among the CDs in each bedroom, and the occasional shot of Abba in their 1970s heyday can be found amid the cinematic posters and prints that are a feature of the hotel's décor. But that's about it. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...closer look, however, raises the question of whether the author had humor or self-sabotage on his mind. “Nobody Move” is the gravitational inverse to a novel like “Tree of Smoke”: a breezy, barely-there venture into the heyday of pulp fiction. The concept actually has a good deal of promise behind it—“Jesus’ Son,” Johnson’s 1992 collection of short stories that is arguably his masterpiece, dwells on the short, ugly lives of a noir-esque cast...
Conceived in the heady heyday of the Belle Epoque, London department store Selfridges has yet to reinvent itself for the age of austerity. But there's one commodity on sale between the crystal decanters and bone china that perfectly reflects the preoccupations of the times. For just $70, a concession called Psychic Sisters retails peace of mind by the half-hour...
...surface, this seems fine. After all, this is the heyday of the chronic oversharer. Everyone talks all the time, regardless of whether anyone listens. We Tweet, we Facebook, we Gchat, we blog, we text. We share every thought, significant or un, from the moment we switch on our iPhones in the morning to the instant we sit down face to face with an actual person. The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted. Fran Lebowitz once remarked that “the opposite of talking isn?...
...networking. The idea was birthed in the seedy underworld of the Internet by the same folks who brought you such innovations as spam, the pop-up ad and spyware. The site itself was a rip-off, a hastily thrown-together clone of its predecessor Friendster. Both sites missed the heyday of the Web bubble, but there's something to be said for persistence and a good idea, and MySpace quickly grew far beyond anyone's expectations. (See TIME's 50 best websites...