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At first, even the people at Pabst — which has barely advertised for more than 20 years — were at a loss. But any trend with even the slightest commercial implications in the American marketplace immediately becomes subject to two iron laws. The first is that it will attract a swarm of consultants, marketers and journalists, trying to deduce the trend’s origins. Second, efforts will be made to amplify and prolong the trend, profitably.
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We see it as an acknowledgment by the leading baby video company that baby videos are not educational, and we hope other baby media companies will follow suit by offering refunds,
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A bildungsroman is a coming-of-age kind of novel. It arose during the German Enlightenment, and in it, the author presents the psychological, moral and social shaping of the personality of a usually young main character (the protagonist)
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U.S. states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth
just wow - Now That You’re Gone by Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Robin Sparkles, “Let’s Go to the Mall”
I love the 80s, especially in Britain.
Satan Is Dead! (via emergentpatterns)
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In April 2006 it was reported that Webb had written a sequel to The Graduate, entitled Home School, but refused to publish it in its entirety because of a copyright loophole. When he sold the film rights to The Graduate in the 1960s, Webb also surrendered the film rights to any sequels.
Mumiy Troll - nevesta (via RaEe26)
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She then starts singing “The Fame” in a remix version of the song while riding a Vespa and wearing a hat made of toppled dominoes.
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being called a ‘political elitist’ means being smart enough to realize what the real elitists are doing to the person you’ve just spoken to
