Word: popularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...intersection between the two) thrust upon me by a pair of kicks. With the conference celebrating Andy Warhol’s legacy at the Sackler this past weekend and Barack Obama’s image superimposed on t-shirts and posters across campus, this idea of art, popular culture, and fashion—that art is fashion and fashion is art—kept popping into my head. That fashion is a form of artistic expression, and vice versa, seems inevitable in today’s consumer culture, but was this always the case? Would Louis XVI?...
...while providing relatable characters—and a good dose of humor—for his readers.Poundstone begins by investigating a number of elections in which “spoilers”—like Nader—tipped the scales in favor of a less popular candidate. His examples include not only five presidential campaigns, but also a Louisiana gubernatorial race in which spoilers led to a final vote between an egregiously corrupt Democrat and a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. In exhaustive detail, Poundstone describes the machinations of political camps as they seek...
...relationship between video games and contemporary music—both popular and original—has been marked by intriguing highs and disastrous lows. Those looking for a successful fusion of these media need look no further than last weekend, when Sunday Night Football played host to the premiere of the “Gears of War 2” trailer. The trailer, entitled “Last Day,” features cinematic shots of thoughtful computer-rendered soldiers as they cast their final glances at an idyllic landscape before embarking on a subterranean mission against an unseen alien...
...we’ve seen, change means different things to different people. But it might augur something particularly unfortunate for Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, the anchors of Comedy Central’s two immensely popular fake news shows, “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report...
...show that promised reporting on “all the day’s events—at least the ones we’re let into.” Spurred largely by his coverage of the 2000 and 2004 elections, Stewart has since become an icon of American popular culture—a 2007 Pew Research Center poll found that Stewart is the fourth most trusted journalist in America. Meanwhile, his show has garnered critical and popular accolades, including six consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Musical, Variety, or Comedy Series...