Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even the American people are starting to invoke "the American People"--read the letters column in your local paper. And why not? It is a phrase perfectly suited to the time. It is irresistibly pompous, containing seven luxurious syllables as against only three for its pedestrian synonym "the public...
...people. Then they each report on their dates, and they end the show by holding up signs saying whether they want to break up or stay together. In New York City and Los Angeles the show is aired right before Jerry Springer, and often makes that show look rather pedestrian. It has the obvious mark of executive producer Scott ("the Snot") St. John (that's what he calls himself in the credits), who, with Brian Graden, co-created Studs, the dating-game show that was just as rude and compelling as St. John's new creation. The old show benefited...
...Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst (upon whom "Citizen Kane" was based) were not afraid to embellish or even invent news when things were slow. They learned that the truth often got in the way of the stuff that sells newspapers. People preferred to read about fabricated news rather than pedestrian real-life stories...
...cast of characters is worthy of a Dickens novel, except Dickens' characters never said "ganga" so much. Along the beach, each salesman has a name appropriate to his task. Chef grills the jerk chicken; Jelly-Man sells jellied coconuts off his cart. The beachfront entrepreneur with the most pedestrian name is John, a re-located Chicagoan who runs one of the chillest open-air bars in Negril. Why did he give up life in a first-world country to become a self-proclaimed "beach bum"? "Mid-life crisis," he says. His friend, Hills-Man, comes to the beach to visit...
...scores and stock prices to your mobile using short messaging, much as a pager does. Soon an advertiser like McDonald's will be able to send a data message to every mobile phone at a football stadium urging their owners to eat a Big Mac at halftime. Or a pedestrian walking past a car showroom might receive a message inviting him inside for a special deal...