Word: phenomenons
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...phenomenon, which started among retailers like Comme des Garçons and Target, has migrated to the art scene. Works by Banksy, a graffiti artist, are now so acclaimed that residents of London neighborhoods want to keep them as local attractions. Banksy was among those artists contributing to a one-month-only gallery on Oxford Street in December that proved so popular, security had to be hired to control the line waiting...
Best-selling authors and trend spotters Marian Salzman and Ira Matathia, in their recent book, Next Now: Trends for the Future, call the phenomenon "inconspicuous consumption"?"shoppers who are buying discretely designer clothing that only insiders would recognize as such...
...sections were greeted with applause; a clip of an aspiring rapper vowing to “get my rape on,” however, drew loud murmurs. At the same time, Hurt linked the aggressive masculinity he finds in hip-hop music to what he sees as a broader phenomenon in American society. “I started thinking about the larger culture of violence. If George Bush were in the rap game, he would probably outsell 50 Cent,” said Hurt. “His brand of hyperaggression, his inability to make any concessions, to acknowledge...
...Latham is only one of the many connoisseurs on campus who hold tastings to introduce tyros to the world of oenophilia. And this isn’t just a Harvard phenomenon. Wine consumption in America is higher than ever before, according to a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, and the industry’s strength is evident at Harvard, where one wine tasting course counts for credit and, after a two-year hibernation, Harvard Student Agencies is resurrecting its own tasting course...
...largest city in the world and the most cosmopolitan place in China. To reflect the era's gin-and-jazz culture, Shanghai's architects turned their backs on the pompous colonial edifices of yesteryear and embraced the modern sophistication of Art Deco. It was a prolific but short-lived phenomenon. When Mao Zedong's communists seized control of the country in 1949, the clampdown on Shanghai's foreign influences was total, and a period of isolationism began...