Word: mantras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should you find yourself feeling frazzled and desperate, just remember the quitter's mantra: "Nobody ever died from giving up smoking...
Adhering to the mantra that simpler is better, cell phones and pagers have always had one primary function, respectively, but they got even better at it in 1998. The launch of Iridium's worldwide satellite paging and cellular-phone service was the flashiest advance, but the new low-cost calling plans (of just 10[cents] to 15[cents] a minute) on regular cell phones will do much more to increase their use. The Yankee Group predicts that these lower-priced calling plans will bump up average cell-phone usage, from three to five hours a month, by 2007. Pagers...
...idols have deteriorated from wholesome sitcom characters and 80s excess into the over hyped likes of the Spice Girls, Mariah Carey, Hanson, Leonardo DiCaprio and the Backstreet Boys. Strangely enough, the Spice Girl's teeny-bopper fans notice no implicit contradiction between one of their role models proclaiming the mantra "Girl Powah" and then posing nude for Playboy...
...these people, the vocalists, I asked them what do they feel like living in the late twentieth-century, media saturation, electronically-accelerated culture, etc etc. And so each person came back at me with all this kind of wild stuff. I mean Mariko came back with a Buddhist mantra psalm of a two thousand-year-old Japanese dialect. Or Julia Scher came back with a spoken word piece about engineering for the environment. So to make a long story short, you can have Julia Scher from MIT sharing a space with someone from Wu-Tang Clan, or Mariko Mori...
...doesn't try to do anything more than give a quick and superficial tour of the Amazonian rain forests. Even with all the colorful visual distractions sprinkled throughout the film, one can't help but notice the handling of this clumsy plot. The persistent "rain forests can cure anything" mantra is annoyingly condescending, but without it, one might as well be watching a per-flight nature video with complementary Vivaldi playing on the soundtrack. Incidentally, the musical score is one of the better aspects of the film. It is majestic, holy and beautiful, right when it needs...