Word: phenomenon
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...Liverpool observed that men in trendy pubs fidgeted with their phones periodically, removed them from jacket pockets to examine the LED-screen, checked messages though they had not received a call, verified the battery life, and laid them on the bar for all to see. This cell-strutting-phenomenon, say researchers, dovetails with the cell phone industry’s unceasing imperative to produce phones with complex and vanishingly useful features—set your ring as the “Mission: Impossible” theme—just so its customers can claim to have the latest peripheral bell...
There's no way to know just how widespread the trauma-into-passion phenomenon is. But names for it, at least, are proliferating. "Apocalypse sex" is what Jeff Sonios calls his encounter with a woman he met at the Lakeside Lounge, an East Village bar that was hopping in the days after the disaster. Lindsay Oktay, a U.N. conflict-resolution expert who has weathered crises in Angola, Kenya and now Manhattan, prefers "Armageddon...
...Phenomenon Tour, which hit Boston last Sunday night at the Berwick Research Institute in Dudley Square. In the tradition of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Play (90 plays in 90 minutes) and Short Songs for Short People (90 punk songs in 90 minutes), Phi-Phenomenon gave its audience 10 bands in one hour—five minute sets, one minute between sets. Perfect for today’s sound byte, short attention span, try-it-before-you-buy-it-world: You get to sample several artists live, without having to commit time or money to any that...
...course, in the case of Phi-Phenomenon, the music wasn’t exactly typical. With bands like the Laundryroom Squelchers and U Can Unlearn Guitar, the Phi-Phenomenon tour was a global collection of Noise. Note the capital N—this is a unique genre of sound...
...been a man’s game. Armies have always been overwhelmingly male, instigating wars characterized by big egos, over-aggression and nervous women wringing their hands out at home, in prayer for their husbands and sons. (There’s a book called War and Peace outlining the phenomenon...