Word: ironization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just not the hero type, clearly," swaggering billionaire weapons contractor Tony Stark explains to the press in the first of this summer's bumper crop of comic-book films, Iron Man, "with this laundry list of character defects and all the mistakes I've made, largely publicly." Stark, who by the way clearly [does] think he's the hero type, is played by another sort you might not associate with saving the planet: Robert Downey...
...expected to issue recommendations about the future of the House system in December of this year. Students, faculty, and staff will work in conjunction with the project’s architects, the planners for the University’s Allston expansion, and representatives of campus groups to iron out the details of the plan that will closely impact undergraduate House life...
...halves form a distinctive album that is about partying with abandon in one moment and picking up the pieces of your life in the next. Gil Norton, whose past credits include efforts by the Foo Fighters, produced the first half, while Brian Deck, who has worked with Iron & Wine, is responsible for the second half. Norton’s influence is apparent in the album’s unsparing opening track “1492,” a song about moral disintegration—something Duritz’s songs have always wrestled with. At times the blaring guitars...
...bound collections of individual issues of comic books or actual novels written in comic-book format.TIME is hardly alone in assuming that the country is ready for comic book culture. This summer, Hollywood will try to replicate the success of recent movies inspired by superhero comics. “Iron Man,” “The Dark Knight,” and “The Incredible Hulk” will all shoot to become the next “Spider-Man 3” at the box office.So what’s a cultured Harvard student...
...despots is a thin one. Mugabe ended up building his own version of what he hated most. His nightmarish rule has featured one too many policies characteristic of an illiberal colonial power. Considering his aggressive foreign policy, his ethnic cleansing campaigns, the role of his economic elite, and his iron-fisted rule, Mugabe’s legacy bears comparison with only the worst empires...