Signs of phenomena movie#
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That is, there was really no place for them in the culture, in the economy, yet they were there, at that time, and everyone knew that they wouldn't last very long, which they didn't. Pete Hamill, Gourmet, April 2007 They were ephemera and phenomena on the face of a contemporary scene. These are immense places, loud with music part honkytonk, part dance hall, some servicing as many as a thousand drinkers on several floors. Lapham, Harper's, September 2007 The days and nights of the Irish pub, smoky and dark and intimate, are giving way to another phenomenon: the superpub. James Laube, Wine Spectator, Contrary to the notion that war is a continuation of policy by other means …, both Keegan and Mueller find that war is a cultural product rather than a phenomenon or law of nature and therefore subject, like other modes of human expression (the wearing of togas or powdered wigs, the keeping of slaves, the art of cave painting), to the falling out of fashion.
John Seabrook, New Yorker, 23 June 2008 This follow-the-winemaker phenomenon is a unique wrinkle in our wine culture. For example, we talk more loudly in cars, because of a phenomenon known as the Lombard effect-the speaker involuntarily raises his voice to compensate for background noise.