A celebrity is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media.

When it becomes possible for a people to describe as ‘ postmodern ’ the décor of a room, the design of a building, the diegesis of a film, the construction of a record, or a ‘ scratch ’ video, a television commercial, or an arts documentary, or the ‘ intertextual ’ relations between them, the layout of a page in a fashion magazine or critical journal, an anti-teleological tendency within epistemology, the attack on the ‘ metaphysics of presence ’, a general attenuation of feeling, the collective chagrin and morbid projections of a post-War generation of baby boomers confronting disillusioned middle-age, the ‘ predicament ’ of reflexivity, a group of rhetorical tropes, a proliferation of surfaces, a new phase in commodity fetishism, a fascination for images, codes and styles, a process of cultural, political or existential fragmentation and / or crisis, the ‘ de-centring ’ of the subject, an ‘ incredulity towards metanarratives ’, the replacement of unitary power axes by a plurality of power / discourse formations, the ‘ implosion of meaning ’, the collapse of cultural hierarchies, the dread engendered by the threat of nuclear self-destruction, the decline of the university, the functioning and effects of the new miniaturised technologies, broad societal and economic shifts into a ‘ media ’, ‘ consumer ’ or ‘ multinational ’ phase, a sense ( depending on who you read ) of ‘ placelessness ’ or the abandonment of placelessness (‘ critical regionalism ’) or ( even ) a generalised substitution of spatial for temporal coordinates-when it becomes possible to describe all these things as ‘ Postmodern ’ ( or more simply using a current abbreviation as ‘ post ’ or ‘ very post ’) then it ’ s clear we are in the presence of a buzzword.

By the late 1900s the terms speculation and speculator were somewhat down played by the media, likely due to turmoil in the capital markets ever since the tech boom bubble pop, and the historical fascination with blaming wall street speculators for all the ills of the world, had mysteriously returned to the newspapers.

Due to the town's small size and the fascination with the trailer park stereotype, what were sometimes smaller incidents caused major headlines in the media of the area: In 1970, then-mayor George Reiter attempted to replace the female village clerk because he believed men were temperamentally better suited for the position, a view held by many of his supporters in the city.

The joint tour headlining both former lead singers attracted media and audience fascination because it seemed more improbable than even a Van Halen tour with Roth or Hagar could be.

With the two bands seen as the most central to the scene out of action, media fascination with Madchester dwindled.

Her aviation accomplishments never gained the continuing media attention given those of Amelia Earhart, but that can in part be attributed to the public's fascination with those who die young at the peak of their careers.

Numerous popular stories were published about her in the media as well, reflecting the public's fascination with this female engineer.

The joint tour headlining both former lead singers attracted media and audience fascination because it seemed more improbable than even a Van Halen tour with Roth or Hagar could be.

An official item soon following Pitt's divorce from Aniston, Pitt and Jolie became even more of a media fascination for their social activism and ever-growing family, with the couple adopting from foreign countries.

Their fascination with and exploitation of mass media anticipated and influenced advertising in the 20th century.

In March 2011, Emery's injury and undefeated return to the NHL with the Anaheim Ducks garnered much media attention and fascination, with a special segment featured on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada.

He had a childhood fascination with mass media: movies, television, magazines, and comic books, which continue to influence his art.

Psychologists have been intrigued by De Palma's fascination with pathology, by the aberrant behavior aroused in characters who find themselves manipulated by others.

His fascination with the prospect of having Jen as a disciple also motivates his behavior, and that of Jade Fox.

He emphasized style, a fascination with surfaces, and atmosphere over traditional science-fiction tropes.

So began his lifelong fascination with logic and reasoning.

An early fascination in automobiles led Brown to a job with the Stevens-Duryea Company, then to his own Brown Motor Car Company in Alabama.

Cronenberg's fascination with the film Winter Kept Us Warm ( 1966 ) by classmate David Secter sparked his interest in film.

Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

Indeed Hilbert would lose his " gifted pupil " Weyl to intuitionism — " Hilbert was disturbed by his former student's fascination with the ideas of Brouwer, which aroused in Hilbert the memory of Kronecker ".

Girardot, Miller and Liu ( 2001: xxxi ) explain, " earlier discussions of the Daoist tradition were often distorted and misleading — especially in terms of the special Western fascination with the ' classical ' or ' philosophical ' Daode jing and the denigration and neglect of the later sectarian traditions.

Bowie's fascination with the bizarre was fuelled when he met dancer Lindsay Kemp: " He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence.

Robert Lowie later said that Sapir's fascination with indigenous languages stemmed from the seminar with Boas in which Boas used examples from Native American languages to disprove all of Sapir's common-sense assumptions about the basic nature of Language.

Time magazine wrote in 1969 that Singer had had a lifelong fascination with Phobos and Mars's second moon, Deimos.

The mood and themes of the Gothic novel held a particular fascination for the Victorians, with their morbid obsession with mourning rituals, mementos, and mortality in general.

The animal was a source of fascination for the Chinese people, who associated it with the mythical Qilin.

The gothic fascination with the macabre has raised public concerns regarding the psychological well-being of goths.

* ' Heart of Darkness ' and late-Victorian fascination with the primitive and the double-novel by Joseph Conrad

Baldung ’ s fascination with witchcraft lasted well into the end of his career.

Irrealist writing often highlights this irreality, and our strange fascination with it, by combining the unease we feel because the real world doesn't conform to our desires with the narrative quality of the dream state ( where reality is constantly and inexplicably being undermined ); it is thus said to communicate directly, " by feeling rather than articulation, the uncertainties inherent in human existence or, to put it another way ... the irreconcilability between human aspiration and human reality.

Mayol ’ s fascination with dolphins started in 1955 when he was working as a commercial diver at an aquarium in Miami, Florida.

His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the fifteen years of research and lifelong fascination with the planet Mars.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Friedrich Engels, and Peter Kropotkin all read him with fascination, as did André Breton and Roland Barthes.

Baum started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing.

His fascination for music began at the age of five when he would secretly listen to the private record collection of one of his bigger brothers.

Despite this, Thompson humanizes the incumbent through several episodes, including recounting a private interview with Nixon in New Hampshire during the 1968 presidential election that largely focused on their mutual fascination with football.

The life of Long has held continuing fascination.

In the further reaches of chick lit, ' the male organ ... becomes a tower of strength, a tree trunk in girth, the pillar that sustains the universe ... a Pillar of Hercules, sustaining heaven ' - evidence perhaps that ' the phallic religious tendency is alive in the modern and the civilized ... a compulsive fascination ' with what Jung termed ' the phallus as the quintessence of life and fruitfulness '.

Early in his life, his family moved to East Orange, New Jersey, where he began to acquire both his fascination with the natural world and his tendency to record everything he saw.

This fascination, which lasted the rest of his life, led him to be the first to describe the changes in skin pigmentation typical of what is now called Addison's disease.

Liddon's influence during his life was due to his personal fascination and his pulpit oratory rather than to his intellect.

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Nowadays to visit the castle is to experience the fascination of life in the middle of the 19th century in a residence that has remained largely intact and which gives the visitor an insight into the personality of Maximilian.

Today, the Salzburg Marionette Theatre is under the artistic direction of his granddaughter, Gretel Aicher, who commented on her lasting interest in marionettes, " What then is the fascination of a life with marionettes?

The friends carried this fascination with them to university life in Lund, a municipality lying approximately southeast of Helsingborg.

Reviewing the novel for a genre audience, Judith Merril compared Nova Express to " the surreality of certain dreams, or the intense fascination of a confusion of new impressions in real life.

His painterly vision which encompassed a fascination with nature and the ability to reveal extraordinariness in ordinary life was heavily indebted to the French painters Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.

This sparked renewed interest in the work of Walker ( although years later Cope would comment that the singer ’ s " Pale White Intellectual " outlook on life no longer held any fascination for him ).

Perhaps this led to his fascination and collection of World War One German Pickelhaube later in life.

In 2000 Esther Williams ' life and career was portrayed in the Swedish book Esther Williams — Skenbiografin ( i. E ~ " Esther Williams — The Fake Biography ") by Jane Magnusson ; in which the author shares with readers her own fascination for art swimming as a genre and, here, in particular, Williams as — to the author — both a bewildering and mesmerizing front figure and icon in this field.

None of them seriously believes that this work of fiction will really make someone take a potshot at the president, and anyway, the attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life came out of a crazy guy's fascination with Jodie Foster, so you may as well decry movies starring blonde former child actresses.

This began a fascination with the history of art for the rest of his life, and whilst there he began his first art-history chart, measuring 6 by 12 foot, a " time / space chart categorizing all past styles, movements, schools, artists etc.

Some scholars find parallels between Quiroga's apparent fascination with death, accidents, and illness ( comparable to Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire ) and his incredibly tragic life.

Vitalistic view of life and fascination by countryside-Cypress ( Čempres ), Dionysian Poems ( Dionizijske pjesme ), Cicada ( Cvrčak ) and Olive ( Maslina ), as well as contemplative experience and spiritualizing of natural appearances-Turris eburnea, Notturno, Forest Sleeps ( Šuma spava ), Trunk ( Stablo ) and Spider ( Pauk ), dominate in the heights of that phase, and these are the heights of Nazor's poetry at all.

It was to the first of these countries that the Abbé Sorin felt attracted ; and to the end of his long life accounts of the trials and triumphs of Chinese missionaries had for him a singular fascination.

These cartoons imbued Lat with a fascination of family life and the antics of children, which served him well in his later works.

( Enjoy What You Do )", a song about the joys of a leisurely life on the dole ; " Bad Boys ", about a strained relationship between a rebellious teenage boy and his worried parents ; and " Club Tropicana ", a satire of the media's fascination with the elitist London club scene.

A fascination with death consumed his later life ; he would feign death in front of his children, so as to gauge their reactions, and he insisted on his eldest daughter, Mary, decapitating him after his death because of his fear of being buried alive ; a task which earned her £ 5 extra in her inheritance.

Before Syd's caught her breath, she's caught Lucy's fascination and is drawn into the center of Lucy's strangely alluring life upstairs.

Johnston's style became increasingly realistic throughout his life, evincing a particular fascination for the qualities of light reflected from snow.