Word: hulked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lassiter guffawed confidently as he watched his fellow contestants limber up in front of the John Harvard statue for the upcoming battle. Despite his confidence, he, along with the others, could not help but be intimidated by Lehe, who arrived the day after Halloween clad as the Incredible Hulk...
...presence of the Hulk was the last touch on a largely fearful pool of competitors, however. “I don’t really know where the dining halls are,” Lurie, the only first-year in the all senior group, shakily remarked. “And I ate a big lunch...
General Electric's old advertising slogan--"We bring good things to life"--conjured the comforting glow of a GE light bulb or the hum of a refrigerator. Real stuff. The company's new catchphrase--"Imagination at work"--may soon summon visions of the Hulk or a horse named Seabiscuit. With GE entering talks last week to merge its NBC unit with Vivendi Universal's entertainment assets, the industrial powerhouse has muscled onto a media stage already crowded with Schwarzenegger-size conglomerates. For GE, imagination may soon have to do some heavy lifting...
...Pratt, who shot Brazil and Batman in the '80s and gave a nicely sepulchral tone to last year's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And heading the cast is a tony quartet of hunks: Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana (who somehow survived the wreck of The Hulk) as Hector, Sean Bean (Boromir in The Lord of the Rings) as Odysseus and Orlando Bloom (who was Tolkien's elf lord Legolas and Johnny Depp's young foil in Pirates of the Caribbean) as that thieving scamp Paris. And in the role of Priam, King of Troy, is Peter...
...like things, and Americans like big. But why, in this age of too little time and too many distractions, should we care so much about next? My nightstand, desktop, TiVo menu and mental to-do list are still full of last big things I never got around to--The Hulk, Friendster, hot yoga (or, for that matter, cold yoga)--and I'm paid to keep up with this stuff. For the average person with an actual productive job, keeping up with this conveyor belt of novelty must seem like grueling, poorly paid work...