Word: sensationalize
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While still in production, a movie about the heroic defense against a horde off seemingly indestructible invaders is adopted by the fanboys of the Internet. The film becomes a sensation even before it's released and... sorry, that was Snakes on a Plane.
The first song on Arcade Fire’s newest album, “Neon Bible,” is the musical equivalent of the feeling a dog must get right before a storm. Starting off with a noise that only foreshadows the expanding thunder sound that follows, this portentous...
The sensation of phoning somebody I knew nothing about, who wasn’t expecting my call, and who didn’t work for my cell phone company was daunting and more than a little awkward. But he didn’t care. Neither of us obeyed those bizarre...
There is also the particularly unwelcome death that not just ends a life but also undoes it, indeed steals it. The way Kitty Genovese's was stolen. On March 13, 1964, she was repeatedly stabbed for 35 minutes in the street and in the foyer of her apartment building in...
Why? Ehrman, 51, says the dynamic of the academy has changed. "The generation that trained us would spend many years honing their discipline until they felt they could write their seminal work, maybe in their 50s," he says. "This generation is different. You publish as quickly as possible, create a...