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...back on the Sunshine road," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Lee has shown no intention of changing his mind. Kim, Lee's national-strategy secretary, calmly dismisses the North's rhetoric as "not a new phenomenon." In late March, South Korea's representative voted for a U.N. resolution criticizing North Korea's human-rights record, a reversal of Seoul's previously nonconfrontational stance on the issue...
...break-dancing in the 1983 movie Flashdance helped turn an urban art form from the streets of the Bronx and Harlem into an international phenomenon, but Wayne Frost, also known as "Frosty Freeze," had been developing his signature style since the 1970s, later joining the influential Rock Steady Crew. He appeared as the face of the break-dancing craze on the cover of the Village Voice and later performed in the movie Beat Street. An acrobatic, charismatic dancer, Frost created gravity-defying moves that persist today as some of the most challenging and daring in hip-hop, like the "suicide...
Early this decade, TV both profited from and stoked the obsession with real estate. TLC's Trading Spaces became a phenomenon. Real estate magnate and '80s relic Donald Trump reinvented himself as a prime-time star on The Apprentice. HGTV went from being an obscure channel to being one of the most popular destinations on the dial...
...remember thinking, ‘this is ridiculous,’” North says. “This is going to be absurd and I want to be a part of this.” Though humor is a large aspect of almost any Internet phenomenon, ROFLCon isn’t all fun and games. Scholars from around the country will moderate the panels and address online pop culture from an academic perspective. The topic doesn’t currently command much serious intellectual study, but ROFLCon may help change that. “A conference devoted...
...would definitely play if one did start—and he isn’t alone. “I think we need to get on board as soon as possible,” Harry Potter fan Christina M. Giordano ’10 says of the Muggle Quidditch phenomenon. “I mean, we are the school that most resembles Hogwarts. We can’t drop the ball on this one. Pun intended.” The tamer version of Quidditch, however, doesn’t appeal to all fans: Edmund G. Soriano...