Word: popularizers
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Your version of Sarah Palin's adieu to Alaska as beat poetry was so popular it even inspired an encore performance using the ex-Alaska Governor's tweets. How did the idea first come about? I had been on The Tonight Show a couple of weeks earlier telling a story, and then some papers tried to manufacture a feud between Conan and myself, which is, of course, ridiculous. So they called a few weeks later to do the Palin bit to solidify that we weren't feuding - the Conan O'Brien show and I are really good friends - and that...
...argues for halting immigration ? and restoring the death penalty. Diverges from him by supporting women's rights, abortion and the creation of a "French Islam" Quote: "I have a very social vision of politics, and there are leftist voters who identify with my positions" - Le Pen explains her popular appeal...
With more than a dozen fan groups on Facebook and a forthcoming iPhone app, Bananagrams may be the most popular game you've never heard of. From a first order two years ago of 5,000 banana-shaped pouches filled with plastic letter tiles, the game has proved to be a word-of-mouth hit, with 2 million units expected to be sold this year...
...society's fear of (and fascination with) sharks and terrorism has not abated. However, we've added a handful of other apocalyptic anxieties: mass extinction, proliferating nukes, global flooding, swine flu, bird flu, peak oil, economic collapse. The end of the world has long been the subject of a popular genre of TV, books and movies. Now, in the 21st century tradition of fear as entertainment, it has its own reality show. In Discovery's The Colony, 10 volunteers are barricaded in a warehouse, without running water or electricity, to simulate surviving after the end of civilization. The band...
...French teacher on trial alongside dozens of political dissidents. The stepped-up campaign to characterize the widespread unrest since the June 12 presidential election as a foreign-led attempted "soft overthrow" appears to be an effort by the ruling faction to rally the increasingly splintered conservative base against a popular - and old - enemy: the West...