Word: popularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...zombie-like figure, awash in ambiguity; once he gets to meet a few humans he see that they're really not such bad sorts after all. The guy was never a ton of fun, but formerly he was at least a figure of moral weight and - especially rare in popular entertainments - a believably brainy one, a kind of public intellectual before that egregious term was invented. Now he's pretty much a drip...
...turned off by Wright attacks. The context of the entire campaign, McInturff said, was a national math that did not favor McCain at any point. He said he told the candidate that the "happy scenario" was for McCain to narrowly win the Electoral College and lose the popular vote by about 3 million. Because of this, McInturff advised McCain not to campaign in an overly divisive manner, lest the task of governing become nearly impossible...
...whole thing reminded me, believe it or not, of the NBC series 30 Rock. Granted, “articulate speechlessness” is about the last thing you would find in this, one of television’s talkiest programs, but what in the realm popular culture is better at innocently taking the mickey out of the Man? Take the “cat anus” sequence in last week’s episode: The archetypal boss Jack Donaghy, crazed with career disappointment, announces that his new professional goal is to make sure that Tina Fey?...
...Nalgene Tritan Wide-Mouth Everyday Bottle The reasonably priced U.S.-made Nalgene brand bottles have long been popular with sportsmen and women, office workers and soccer moms. But in 2008, the company found itself, along with other bottle makers, in the eye of a storm over BPA, shorthand for Bisphenol A, a commonly used plasticizer that some researchers suggest poses a health risk to humans. The debate goes on; meanwhile Nalgene is promoting a new line of BPA-free bottles. I tried the 32-ounce Tritan Wide-Mouth Everyday bottle, which holds enough water to hydrate you on a coast...
...Mugabe is hardly any more popular inside Zimbabwe. His party lost its parliamentary majority in a general election in March, and Mugabe finished second behind opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the presidential vote. But despite the election results and the near daily street protests in the capital, Harare, by doctors, teachers, trade unions and, last week, a few hundred soldiers who ransacked shops and stalls, most Zimbabweans don't expect to be rid of Mugabe anytime soon. "You can have governments under threat from a few days of protest in Thailand or Greece, or food riots destabilizing regimes around...