2018年2月12日 星期一

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"I think if anything we attract people to the area. You’ve got people busking outside Tate Modern and it doesn’t stop people going there"
Low attendance at two art institutions was blamed last week on buskers outside. We went to investigate…
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Champions League Dortmund the odd-one-out as Bayern, Leverkusen advance in Europe

Germany has two teams in the knock-out stages of the Champions League after Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen successfully navigated the group stages. German champions Borussia Dortmund, however, failed to progress.

But not just any book! “NurtureShock,” with its Toffleresque title, promises to revolutionize parenthood with “New Thinking About Children.”

Much has changed since 1985, when Euny Hong, an author of a new book called "The Birth of Korean Cool", arrived in Seoul. South Korea was most definitely not hip. Its musicians had been muzzled by censorship, and busking, considered a form of protest, had been banned. From this unpromising position South Korea managed to charge past Japan to become Asia's foremost trendsetterhttp://econ.st/1nAekYn

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Round Two: Is Google a Monopoly?
New York Times
By EVELYN M. RUSLI Now that Google is reportedly on the prowl for the next Groupon, it's time to revisit the debate of whether Google should be allowed to ...



-esque
suff.
In the manner of; resembling: Lincolnesque.
[French, from Italian -esco, from Vulgar Latin *-iscus, of Germanic origin.]


future shock
Term coined by the American writer Alvin Toffler, to mean the trauma experienced by rapid changes — for example, to the environment, especially destruction of familiar buildings, or customs of childhood. The trauma is similar to that often experienced by émigrés, but is even less reversible as it is in time.



    Bibliography
  • Toffler, A. (1970). Future Shock.

busk

intr.v.buskedbusk·ingbusks.To play music or perform entertainment in a public place, usually while soliciting money.
[Earlier, to be an itinerant performer, probably from busk, to go about seeking, cruise as a pirate, perhaps from obsolete French busquer, to prowl, from Italian buscare, to prowl, or Spanish buscar, to seek, from Old Spanish boscar.]
busker busk'er n.

1.
v. intr. - 沿街賣藝, 以劣等貨欺騙鄉下人
2.
n. - 鯨骨, 鋼絲等, 婦女胸衣


日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 大道芸をする
n. - 胸部の張り枠



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VERB

[NO OBJECT]
1Play music in the street or other public place for voluntary donations:the group began by busking on Philadelphia sidewalks(as noun buskingyears of busking had taught him how to hold a crowd
2(busk itINFORMAL Improvise.

Origin

mid 17th century: from obsolete French busquer 'seek', from Italian buscare or Spanish buscar, of Germanic origin. Originally in nautical use in the sense 'cruise about, tack', the term later meant 'go about selling things', hence 'go about performing' (mid 19th century).


prowl
v.prowledprowl·ingprowlsv.tr.
To roam through stealthily, as in search of prey or plunder: prowled the alleys of the city after dark.
v.intr.
To rove furtively or with predatory intent: cats prowling through the neighborhood.
n.
The act or an instance of prowling.
idiom:
on the prowl
  1. Actively looking for something: salespeople on the prowl for better jobs.
[Middle English prollen, to move about.]
prowler prowl'er n.

busker

intr.v., busked, busk·ing, busks.
To play music or perform entertainment in a public place, usually while soliciting money.

[Earlier, to be an itinerant performer, probably from busk, to go about seeking, cruise as a pirate, perhaps from obsolete French busquer, to prowl, from Italian buscare, to prowl, or Spanish buscar, to seek, from Old Spanish boscar.]


gámeplàyer[gáme・plàyer]

[名](コンピュータゲームの)ゲームGAME 機.
Odd One Out was a weekly quiz programme that was hosted by Paul Daniels and was broadcast on BBC1 from 16 April 1982 to 19 April 1985.
Contents

Gameplay

The object of Odd One Out is to guess which one of four items does not belong & why it doesn't belong. After the player had successfully identify the odd one out, he/she can either guess the explanation or challenge his/her opponents to guess. Choosing the correct item was worth two points, and figuring out why it doesn't belong by guessing the common bond of the other three was worth three points more, for a total of five points.

Plot

A Dublin-based busker and vacuum-cleaner repairman enters into a fruitful relationship with a piano playing florist in a toe-tapping "video album" directed by John Carney and featuring a cast comprised entirely of professional musicians. He (Glen Hansard of the Frames) was a six-stringed street musician. She (Markéta Irglová) was a flower woman who couldn't afford to purchase a piano of her own. One day, after admiring the musician's songs and asking if he would take a look at her broken vacuum, the flower-pushing piano player discovers that she shares a remarkable sonic rapport with the mechanically savvy guitarist. As their musical sensibilities quickly converge to striking effect, the talented pair soon determines to record an album together. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Review

It would be easy to crush John Carney's warm-hearted Once with overpraise. It is a very small, very simple, immensely likeable movie that earns an audience's goodwill early thanks to a very winning performance by Glen Hansard. The film opens with scenes of the man earning money as a street singer, and his singing voice, as well as his sympathy for an addict who tries to rob him, make him an instantly engaging character. Thanks to a textbook "meet cute" involving a broken appliance, he makes the acquaintance of a woman (Markéta Irglová) who eventually becomes his collaborator on a series of songs and recordings that will help both of them realize their personal goals. The songs they create together are the center of the film, and tonally they fit the movie perfectly. They are very pretty, with simple repetitive declarations of emotion, although they lack real hooks -- they are like an earthier version of Damien Rice songs. The movie does not build to a false climax. There is no buildup to a gig that will break them into the big time, and although this is a love story, the movie does not hinge on a "will they or won't they get together" template that would drive most films like this. The simple ending provides a gentle poetic touch that underscores how well these two characters know each other, and what they have given to each other during their brief time together. Once is simply a straightforward account of a couple of weeks in these people's lives, a period of time they will only have once. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

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