Word: ring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...never thought I’d be one of those people who, at age 20, would start the obnoxious “when I was your age…” whine, lamenting that I didn’t own a cell phone with polyphonic ring tones or some other type of adolescent necessity when I was 14 years old. But what I do feel justified in saying is that when I was a tween—a category that roughly encompasses ages ten through 14—the number of media sources and cultural products that spoke...
...Harvard has even younger players—no-names that wouldn’t even ring a bell if you had a roster sitting in front of you. So it should follow that the Crimson will be worse than last year...
...phone that was also a Palm-type organizer was enough to make a gadget freak drool. Now you can get hot video games and a decent MP3 player wrapped up in one device. Lots of handhelds have full Web browsers too, along with instant messaging and a medley of ring tones that are fast becoming standard fare. We even found a GPS tracking device with a built-in jogging computer that you wear on your wrist. Fortunately, many of these new machines also come with improved battery life and enhanced color screens. This is all part of a secret campaign...
...terror is over. It’s taken two years, billions of dollars and thousands of bombs, but finally, Afghan women are strutting around in bikinis. Let freedom ring...
...closing sequences build skillfully on what has come before. Though Elephant can seem a little heavy-handed in places—three girls plan a shopping trip over lunch and then head to the bathroom for a group-vomiting session—even its most obvious observations ring true. And those same observations are almost always counterbalanced by scenes which deepen the characters and deflate their stereotypical qualities. The killers do indeed play violent, dehumanizing computer games, but they also seem genuinely to care about each other, and one plays the piano with an undeniable talent and passion for Beethoven...