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Even with all the lectures spent facebooking and hours of Web stalking, it’s hard to know for sure exactly what’s being written on the walls of your friends. In their ongoing effort to make procrastination easier, Facebook.com created Facebook Lexicon, a feature that tracks when and how often any given word appears on a wall or event page. So, in our ongoing effort to make procrastination even easier, FM decided to do the work for you (you’re welcome!), and hunt down all the buzz words to help you see what you?...
...store appearances from independent music artists as well as special vinyl-only releases from artists like R.E.M., Death Cab For Cutie, Built To Spill, and Stephen Malkmus. It was a day of tribute to the local establishments that have become symbolic in the American underground’s lexicon for their defiance of the cultural status quo. For stores like Newbury Comics, where independence has come first for so long, this collaboration is an ominous indication of their endangered state.Viglione waxed nostalgic about his musical awakening at Newbury Comics, saying, “All the punk records that I bought...
Before Frick and Frack entered the English lexicon as a term for an inseparable pair of buffoons, it referred to a popular ice-skating comedy duo. Beginning in the late 1930s, Frick, Werner Groebli, and his partner, Frack, Hans Rudolph Mauch, performed some 15,000 shows incorporating a unique mixture of pantomime, physical comedy and athleticism. "People think our skating is eccentric. It's not so," Groebli told TIME during the pair's first U.S. tour, in 1939. "Any figure skater should be able to do a serious spread eagle"--in which he skates with his body bent backward nearly...
...This book constitutes the wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work.' J.K. ROWLING, the best-selling British author of the Harry Potter series, testifying in a Manhattan federal court against plans by a U.S. publisher to bring out the Harry Potter Lexicon...
...Indian cuisine long ago surpassed fish-and-chips as Britain's most popular restaurant food. Or, at least, "Anglo-Indian" - England's most popular "Indian" dish, chicken tikka masala, is actually a British invention, since exported to the land that inspired it. Indian property and hotel developers borrow the lexicon of their English counterparts, using terms such as park, mews or estate in the names of new upscale complexes. A hint of Britain sells, it seems...