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...adjectival form "memetic" clocked up 5,042 mentions. To put this into perspective, I compared a few other recently coined words or fashionable expressions. Spin doctor (or spin-doctor) got 1,412 mentions, dumbing down 3,905, docudrama (or docu-drama) 2,848, sociobiology 6,679, zippergate 1,752, studmuffin 776, post-structural (or poststructural...
Memes travel longitudinally down generations, but they travel horizontally too, like viruses in an epidemic. Indeed, it is largely horizontal epidemiology that we are studying when we measure the spread of a word like memetic, docudrama or studmuffin over the Internet. Crazes among schoolchildren provide particularly tidy examples. When I was about nine, my father taught me to fold a square of paper to make an origami Chinese junk. It was a remarkable feat of artificial embryology, passing through a distinctive series of intermediate stages: catamaran with two hulls, cupboard with doors, picture in a frame--and finally the junk...
...proves every week on Friends, an actress who serenely lets the comedy come to her instead of frantically searching for it. Director and co-writer Glenn Gordon Caron, late of Moonlighting, operates in the same smart, patient manner. You might wish he and his colleagues had toasted Nick, their studmuffin, a little more crisply--enough of these puff-pastry leading men--but the rest of the roles are crunchy, and Picture, if not quite perfect, makes a nice light snack for a hot summer...
...silly premise (woman needs man to play her husband in order to get a raise) of this romantic comedy. "Director and co-writer Glenn Gordon Caron, late of 'Moonlighting,' operates in the same smart, patient manner," says Schickel You might wish he and his colleagues had toasted Nick, their studmuffin, a little more crisply -- enough of these puff-pastry leading men -- but the rest of the roles are crunchy, and 'Picture,' if not quite perfect, makes a nice light snack for a hot summer...
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