Word: platforms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Disney has become a hit machine and all cylinders are clicking," says Jason Maltby, president of New York-based MediaShare, a New York based ad buying firm. "Its successes breed more successes and provide a platform for new shows like Hannah Montana...
...another couple hours hanging outside a dining hall?)—the end of deterring candidates is itself undesirable. Multiple tickets are important for the UC elections, injecting unconventional, innovative ideas into what otherwise can too easily deteriorate into stolid, insular debates. The competition allows issues and platforms to come to light that might otherwise be neglected in the dialogue of just a couple mainstream candidates. When the candidate pool is thick, minority viewpoints are given a voice and the most fundamental issues can be brought to light and discussed—for example, the elimination...
...platform wasn’t as straight-forward as I first assumed—“I’m pro-confederate flag, but I don’t have a problem with gay marriage. So what does that make me?” “You’ll never hear me use terms like Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative. I don’t think most people who listen to FM radio care about that kind of stuff.” He is the voice of prejudice itself. “I want to make...
...Spitz’s analysis of the band’s formation to see a master at work. The book does not begin with the creation of the band. The narrative begins in 1800s Liverpool, mapping out the socioeconomic formation of the city. Spitz uses this setting as a platform to describe the historic Irish migration patterns that brought both the Lennons and McCartneys to Liverpool...
...catchy “Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” paving the way for the exploitative forces of rhyme and alliteration in campaign slogans. His wittiness outlived him, and so let this be a lesson to the UC hopefuls: in campaigns, slogans are tantamount to success. Save the platform, give me rhymes! Thomas D. Hadfield ’08 seems to agree, which is why he and S. Adam Goldenberg ’08, both Crimson editors, make a wonderful duo. “A British guy and an 8-foot Jew, what...