Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there, just fluff, and you could have thought of better fluff. Certainly not every entertainment experience needs to be brain-bending, and of course, good fluff has its own relaxing virtues. But if that's what you're in the mood for, watch TV. I hear "Friends" is a popular show...
...feel about the fact that many of the most popular Asian films here are martial arts related--Chow Yun-Fat or Jackie Chan? Is therea need for more artistic endeavors...
...then the bonfire of the books, Krystal Nacht, and in what proves to be the play's most shocking (if somewhat farfetched) moment, Auschwitz. As Halder's rationalizations become increasingly strained and desperate, Hitler assumes a more seductive tone in Halder's mind, and his image is accompanied by popular, catchy drinking songs...
...professor of Harvard's perennially popular Literature and Arts C-37, "The Bible and Its Interpreters," James L. Kugel is perhaps best known to undergraduates for his light-hearted personality and tendency to sing "Happy Birthday" to students in class. He is also known, however, as one of America's foremost Biblical scholars, an authority on issues from historical interpretation to translation. His 1997 book, The Bible As It Was, a history of biblical interpretation in antiquity, was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award and a popular favorite. In his latest release, The Great Poems...
...luxurious strolls through the Biblical forest. As the author points out a flower here, a bird there, all the while quoting liberally from diverse sections of Scripture, the fascinating nuances of Biblical thought are enlivened and made relevant to the modern reader. Sometimes Kugel dips into our own popular culture to clarify an idea, such as his citation of The Wizard of Oz as an example of theological disillusionment for which there is no Hebraic equivalent. At other times, he writes with a contemporary lyricism that brings to life, however anachronistically, the thoughts and feelings of an ancient people: "what...