Word: promotionism
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These similarities between the Joneses and their genuine counterparts, though comically portrayed, are also troubling. They suggest that perhaps normal families operate around the goal of self-promotion. Are we just selling our images to one another, and to those around us? When parents encourage their children to excel, is...
That year, nine of the 28 female junior faculty members at the time packed up and left. Three had come out of the tenure review process disappointed. The rest, facing what they felt to be slim chances, either chose not to apply for promotion or took leaves of absence to...
Date Night, directed by Shawn Levy of the Night at the Museum franchise, performed slightly above industry expectations, whichever slot it finally occupies. It will finish well ahead of Fey's 2008 star vehicle, Baby Mama, and if the estimates hold, it will have sold about the same amount of...
To save his party from an embarrassing defeat in November, therefore, Obama must remove himself from the realm of public policy and reenter the sphere of politics that won him the presidency. He should reframe how he pitches the health-care law and correct the myriad misconceptions about the government?...
The premise of Hanks as history maker seemed reasonable until I flipped the page and found a two-page ad for The Pacific, the miniseries from Time Warner's HBO. TIME's objective news judgment has been seriously compromised by an act of such corporate self-promotion. Ira Pilchen, Chicago...