Word: mega
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Studios are bankrolling these mega-budget films because they can realistically expect to get back as much as $1 billion at the box office worldwide and another billion in DVDs, not to mention the action figures, amusement park rides and other sources of loot. But in a world where you can get a darn satisfying laugh from a free online video starring Will Ferrell and a toddler, it's worth asking, what makes a movie add up to $300 million...
...Increasingly across Iraq, U.S. forces are leaving the comfort and safety of their fortified mega-bases and establishing small combat outposts and patrol bases like the one insurgents struck outside Baquba that left 20 soldiers wounded as well. Some patrol bases are well protected with blast walls and large numbers of troops. Others are little more than abandoned houses that a few platoons circle with Humvees while hunkering down inside. As a reporter frequently embedded with U.S. forces, I've visited many such patrol bases, and the sense of vulnerability at them is all too palpable. The paratroopers tasked with...
...Mexico was like Hollywood, or like India today: a national industry heavily invested in the romantic and domestic weepie, with fearless emoting, hairpin turns of fate, mega-doses of religious and family piety, all set to the popular songs of the day. (Melodrama literally means music drama.) Noble mothers are forever sacrificing themselves -silently, stoically, suicidally -for their kids. Fully three of the 10 Infante features end with some spiteful young person driving some dear old person to death, only to be flattened with a shocking revelation: "She's / he's your mother / father!" Cue tears that would flood...
...just not as captivating as its immediate predecessor. Listening to Bird’s subtle stylings and soaring, intellectual, rustic chamber pop, it seems impossible that he could have ever been a part of the ultra-swinging Squirrel Nut Zippers. He has transformed from floor-stomping fiddler into a mega-orchestral artist for the ages. Yet some aspects of “Armchair Apocrypha” aren’t improvements over Bird’s earlier work. The album seems to aspire to the grand populism of arena rock, but it loses the catchy hooks and grab-your-head...
...power-pop crooners who brought us “Stacy’s Mom” and “Mexican Wine” are back again, and this time their trademarks—unexpected subject matter and high-energy refrains—are more pronounced than ever. Mega-hit “Stacy’s Mom” dealt with teenage lust, but the band’s topics typically have far more gravity—and variety. “Traffic and Weather” addresses all its topics—from crushing on DMV workers...