Word: popularization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Proposal and The Hangover, held their audiences, losing only 18% and 12% respectively from the previous weekend. Sandra Bullock's comeback film is well past the $100 million mark, and The Hangover is well past $200 million. Whatever reservations you might have about these movies as works of popular art, the numbers are good news, in the blockbuster-dominated summer market, for the little movies that could. (A new romantic comedy, I Love You, Beth Cooper, raised barely a titter, or a Twitter, pulling in just $5 million.) (Bruno and the Rest: See TIME's complete Summer Arts Preview...
...from Egypt's domestic woes. "The Islamists in Egypt have already [begun] using this as a card to mobilize for the veil - not for the right of women to wear whatever they want, but in defense of the veil," Hossam el-Hamalawy, an Egyptian journalist and author of the popular blog Arabawy.org, tells TIME...
...street, Sherbini provides an easy outlet for Egyptian frustration - a distraction, some say, from the more serious abuses of an authoritarian regime. "The whole thing is just stupid. But it's convenient," says popular blogger Mahmoud Salem. "It's an opportunity to have fake outrage because it keeps Egyptians busy...
...Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC), which insists the problem can be contained, via regulatory programs like Florida's, without clamping down on imports. "Bans often just drive the commerce underground, which can instead worsen the situation," says PIJAC CEO Marshall Meyers. Python sales, which include the smaller and more popular ball python, are still robust in the U.S., especially in Florida, where they register about $10 million a year. (Read "Is Florida the Sunset State...
...Suppose that Palin somehow channels this grim and possibly gathering sense that America's institutions and authorities are no longer worthy of deference. Suppose that the Obama Administration's expansions of government don't prove as popular - or successful - as Democrats hope. Maybe then she will have picked the right time to declare in her resignation speech, "I've never believed that I, nor anyone else, needs a title" to be effective. In fact, a title might slow you down if your message is that our nation's leaders are so deeply and abidingly inadequate that the only appropriate attitude...