Word: phenomenonal
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...America gone insane? Season six for American Idol has caused us to ask some fundamental questions about the reality television phenomenon. Show judge Simon Cowell repeatedly chides contestants, "This is a singing competition." But is it really? When talented singers such as Gina Glocksen are voted off in favor of a tone-deaf Sanjaya Malakar, with his trainwreck performances, the question is whether Idol is really a singing competition, or something altogether different...
...Sanjaya phenomenon, while amusing, highlights the biggest challenge to reality shows that depend on a public vote for show outcome. It's not a singing contest, or even a popularity contest; it's become a race to see who can make the biggest spectacle. In that context, Sanjaya has the advantage...
...college athletes to attain the fame and renown so common to the NCAA Tournament. There are no Christian Laettner moments or Tyus Edney heroics; the international college arena is a small, informal and anonymous one.My international travels have taught me that highly competitive college sports are a predominantly American phenomenon. In Argentina, college teams are like intramural teams, composed of all those who want to play and lacking the discipline and intensity we expect of college teams in the United States. The everybody-can-play rule is in full effect, and games between schools are like friendly scrimmages. College sports...
Don’t think that it’s a Harvard phenomenon—it’s not. High schools, colleges, and offices around the world are filled with people dying for 30-hour days. If only everyone had more time! It’s a phenomenon that seems to cross class and cultural lines. It’s not just college-educated investment bankers that run themselves ragged; even the cashier at the local grocery store likely has a heavily scheduled life...
...sort of regional patriotism which House “spirit” clumsily approximates is indeed a very natural and healthy phenomenon. One inherently feels affection for the soil on which he has been born and raised, where he and his neighbors have long known each other, reflect local peculiarities of speech and custom, and profess a common conception of the world. A home is something worthy of being proud—something distinctly one?...