Word: zeitgeists
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...zeitgeist shifted toward national defense, and a mandate from Washington apportioned a large slice of the national budget toward protecting the country from terrorism—a new type of national threat...
...know the Zeitgeist is shifting when Nicole Kidman can don a pencil-thin suit from menswear designer du jour Hedi Slimane - or David Beckham can step out in a sarong. "Men are much more receptive to the idea of looking fashionable," says retailer Seper. "There was previously a misunderstanding that if you took an interest in yourself, your masculinity was diminished somehow, whereas now (male grooming) is accepted, in fact it's sought after...
...preoccupations of her generation; she is not a new flavor that launches 32 more. Instead, her success has called attention to the jazz-pop divas who came before her--Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall and Madeleine Peyroux. Most pop phenomena are lightning bolts, flashing quickly and dramatically across the zeitgeist. Jones is a light rain, touching everything and seeping permanently into the soil. In an age when knob-twiddling producers rule and lip-synching pop tarts stalk the stage, she has reintroduced the world to the human voice. Jones is rooted by that libidoless, timeless and peerless voice--a calm, blue...
...organizers decided at the outset that they would bring a hip-hop performer to campus, hoping to bring a group more attuned to the campus zeitgeist...
...Vanilla Sky, The Man Without a Past, the entire Matrix trilogy; and don't forget that Carrey forgot who he was once before in The Majestic. Why the obsession with absentmindedness? This isn't just a handy screenwriting device. There's something going on here, somewhere down in the zeitgeist-haunted basement of popular culture where our national subconscious lives. Why can't the great American movie hero remember...