Word: surfer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...occasional beach ball, water balloon, and crowd-surfer passed overhead, undergrads in plastic ponchoes sang and danced Saturday in a muddy Tercentenary Theater to ’90s hits such as “Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s It Going...
...through blogs, podcasts and movie-news sites that have become trusted sources of movie information for millions of filmgoers. And not just on casting decisions. "They're the new tastemakers," says Avi Arad, a producer behind this summer's Spider-Man 3 and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. "Hard-core fans represent a small piece of the viewing public, but they influence geek culture, journalists, Wall Street. You don't want them to trash your project." If these fans embrace a project, as they did 300 and Heroes, they can kick-start...
...trend, however, encourages customers to take their time while shopping, to relax in an aesthetically pleasing environment. Taking one’s time is part of what these lifestyles brands are selling. You’re a yacht-loving preppy at Polo Ralph Lauren, and a carefree California surfer at Hollister...
...thudding Hulk; for every Shrek, a wildly off-orbit Treasure Planet. They also fret that with so many seen-it-before films clogging the May-June release schedule, sequel fatigue may set in. Pandya suggests this could hurt the June 15 opening of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, a follow-up to the 2005 film Fantastic Four...
...don’t translate. Exhibit A: finding an adequate Spanish counterpart for the word “jolly” (the closest we got was “bárbaro” – like “awesome,” but less painfully Californian surfer dude). Exhibit B: explaining the idiom, “to gird up one’s loins.” (My professor’s attempt: “Before battle, you secure everything here”—pats bottom—“so nothing falls...