Word: rubbishing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Anybody who writes fiction has ideas—most are rubbish, but every now and then you think of something that will allow you to do what you want to do,” Hornby said...
...with any other medium, the vast majority of music videos produced is predictably derivative rubbish. A slew of directors have made a pretty penny from scanning Hype Williams blueprints, cutting and pasting the appropriate rapper, and reprinting the formula endlessly. Prime culprits are Little X and Chris Robinson, who crank out seemingly nonstop streams of product, developing greater intimacy with their fish-eye lenses than with the artists’ music. They have created a combined total of over 150 videos for the libidinous likes of Mystikal and R. Kelly, representing the industry’s rough equivalent of Danielle...
This is where Narcissus was valuable. He still sees Athens as influential with Rome—almost as its cultural and political mentor. Rubbish, of course, but an illusion which was seen as useful by Nuntius and his advisers. Dazzled by the power of Rome, Narcissus was persuaded to join in the attack on the Scythians on the pretext that Vanitas was a threat to Athens. Nuntius needed no such pretext—the needs of the Roman imperium were sufficient justification for the Emperor, the Senate and the people...
...gratifying that you focused on the positive aspects of Rowling's series and not on the headline-making, ban-this-book rubbish that so often takes center stage. Children (and adults) have found something they love that requires no keyboard to access--only imagination and an open mind. As a teacher, I relish discovering a book that students are eager to finish and reread. When students hustle into the classroom and want to share and discuss parts of a book they have read, that's truly magic. DANIEL WALTERS West Seneca...
...Iraq, and to impress on them the importance of staying the course. Fresh from a visit to Baghdad, Lugar warned: "The idea that we will be in just as long as we need to and not a day more - we've got to get over that rhetoric. It is rubbish! We're going to be there a long time...