Word: nauseum
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...clearing and jostling. Someone giggled. My candle blew out and someone else, sotto voce, offered to relight it. After a while the bagpiper started up again. He was wheezing “America the Beautiful” in a stumbling meter. It is a song that was played ad nauseum in the weeks after Sept. 11—a song that was substituted for “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the seventh inning stretch of professional baseball games. It was easier than thinking of a new way to express our grief after...
...only could essays be recycled ad-nauseum, unnecessary paper work would be eliminated. Any remaining details could be ironed out during the ensuing lackluster interview, with questions like, “Are you really qualified? Or are you just pretending?” And most imporantly, Harvard seniors could continue their legacy of never having to make a real-life decision ever...
Mueller, too, damningly equates—or conflates—art and food. He glosses his own work: “19 fluff bunnies. Nineteen cast plaster rabbits covered with Marshmallow Fluff™. Cast-cover-drip-display-shine-sniff-distaste-desire-ad nauseum.” And true to this description, he offers a bevy of 19 frighteningly exaggerated marshmallow bunnies, perched atop cans of paint on a transparent tarpaulin. They are, to be sure, shiny and distasteful, but again this seems to be Mueller’s intent. The bunnies aren’t themselves sculptures?...
...wrote did not consist solely of such Lacanian moments-in-the-mirror as showing the masses a videotape of themselves. He was concerned more broadly that “the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.” The image, reproduced ad nauseum, need no longer be encountered in context; it can meet the viewer, appropriately sanitized, on the viewer’s own terms...
...black icons...does not mean that racism has vanished from our lives," he disregards this affirmation by calling for a multi-racial democracy based on promoting "black" culture in "white" media, for example by featuring Brandy and Monica on Kiss 108--as if playing "The Boy is Mine" ad nauseum could serve as a catalyst for bridging America's racial divisions...