Word: meta
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...want synergy? You want meta-referentiality? Clinton got in a shot at the media. SNL got political validation--a sketch about debates becoming the central moment at a debate. MSNBC got guaranteed free publicity from media folks like myself who love to obsess on the importance of media. Everybody wins...
...crew extol the virtues of cruisin’ down the block with jewels on they watch, the lyrics of such poeticisms are streamingly “printed” on the pages which now serve as the video’s sets. The clip is a boringly meta, dreary treatise on absolutely nothing new. The line between fantasy and actuality is blurred beyond belief and as a result, the video is pushed out of the realm of anything interesting or watchable. Rap videos are supposed to be fun and titillating. This titillation, however, doesn’t only come from...
...Dutch diplomat posted in Hong Kong has been accused of returning his eight-year-old adopted daughter like an unwanted Christmas necktie. The story, which first appeared in the South China Morning Post on Dec. 9, began seven years ago, when Dutch vice consul Raymond Poeteray and his wife, Meta, adopted then-four-months-old Jade in South Korea. The couple, who also have two biological children, brought Jade with them to Indonesia and then to Hong Kong in 2004, although Poeteray never applied for Dutch nationality for the child - a curious oversight, given that he worked in a consulate...
...decade, fiction is not his primary solar system. He is a cognitive psychologist of some renown, newly relocated from Syracuse University to Atlanta's Georgia Tech. Most of his writings appear in such journals as Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, with enticing titles like "Aging and the Stroop Effect: A Meta-Analysis." He wrote Omega Minor in his spare time. When English rights were sold, he did the translation himself, all 695 pages...
...journal. The two find common ground in their shared hatred of Staples (or “Shtooples,” depending on the mood of the entry), their penchant for personal loss, and their unshakable self-loathing. The journal also features excerpts from Roger’s incubating debut meta-novel, the Scotch-soaked “Glove Pond.”The narrative style smacks of a sarcastic take on Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” all the way up to the discussion of one of the characters?...