Word: zeitgeist
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...inflaming religion--can make for involving stories. In March HBO debuts Big Love, about fundamentalist polygamists in Utah. Devout Christian characters have shown up in ensembles from TNT's Wanted to CBS's Threshold. On FX's Rescue Me, Denis Leary's self-destructive firefighter has recurrent talks with--Zeitgeist alert!--Jesus. "I don't know who his agent is," says Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan, "but he's cleaning up this year...
These tracks are energized even more by head-shrieker Brian Chippendale’s high pitched shouting. These yelps lend their ethereal echo to the ghastly zeitgeist of “Riffwraith” and “Megaghost...
...fact that an issue like tax reform generates so much excitement says a lot about the zeitgeist in Germany today--and helps explain why the government of Gerhard Schrder was voted out last month after seven years in power. Following weeks of wrangling, the country's major parties agreed last week to form a coalition government headed by Angela Merkel, 51, who stands to become the first female Chancellor in German history. The victory of Merkel and her Christian Democratic Party marks a generational shift in German politics. Young voters who once were worried about social issues say they...
...interracial couples. “”I remember a lot of interracial dating at those places, people out getting coffee and talking,” he says. This phenomenon—impressive for the mid-1960’s—seemed to be characteristic of the zeitgeist of the Square, which at the time was overflowing with small shops and inviting eateries.The Hayes Bickford was eventually replaced by an ice cream parlor, which was then replaced by what is now the Bank of America. In fact, most of the banks and similar stores in the Square replaced...
...economic and demographic bombshell ticking under the pop culture surface that would bring the deepest change. When the 2000 U.S. census made it clear that Hispanics were poised to become the nation's largest minority, Latinos were thrust into the zeitgeist-visible, indelible, inevitable. The news that the buying power of Hispanics is overtaking that of African Americans and is growing faster than non-Hispanics has sparked a scramble by corporations to understand this huge lucrative market in its midst. The new color of money is brown, black, red, yellow and white. The U.S. consumer economy, in other words...