Word: waved
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...conveys a subdued mood that seems appropriate for the temper of the times. Several other commercials, especially those with a satiric bent, were scrapped in the wake of the attack on America... the Spears spot has already clicked with test audiences and ties in with the current wave of nostalgia...
Concomitant with the wave of nostalgia that followed Sept. 11, 2001 was a wave of escapism, manifest in the celebrity culture of Bonnie Fuller’s weekly feature, “Stars—They’re Just like US!” showing Ben Affleck pumping gas and Kate Hudson at supermarket. Within a month of Britney’s Super Bowl commercial, the seeds were sown for our collective consumption of her downward spiral. “The genius of Bonnie Fuller’s new approach was that almost any picture of a celebrity doing...
...wave the flag here and push it a little bit, you can say ‘just put this on people’s transcripts. What are you not patriotic? Do you not want to make life a little better for these people?’” Krahel said. “And that argument never stops, the next thing they’re back on campus and they have a barracks...
...last week's parliamentary elections? Neither of the traditional groups on the left or right got clear majorities. So I believe that this Third Wave that we've foreseen will take shape in the coming majlis [parliament...
What do you mean by a Third Wave? It's not a political movement like as a party. I think it's more a belief or a phenomenon that's happening in our society and that the majority of our people are tired of extremism and the exaggerations of the factions on the right and the left, and generally of factionalism altogether. Society is moving in a direction to put people with expertise in charge, people who are both idealistic but also realistic. The extremists of both currents will be eliminated, and the majlis will move toward moderation, reason...