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...Genberg is true to the particulars of the period: girls admire boys who look like the American actor James Spader, the mentally ill are dismissed as “fucking unhinged” and mobile phones are a novelty....
...There’s a simple lesson: novelty to the butcher matters much less than to the customer. “We kind of joke about it — it’s not like they’re new, right?” says Scanga....
...Academia rewards novelty rather than usefulness. It also can encourage precision (“did the dog tax affect spending on dog food over its first three months?”)...
...Call it our novelty imperative. “Novelty is stimulating, and your brain needs this kind of stimulation to create new connections and remain flexible and healthy,” she said....
...But the novelty of Alphabet’s new 20 cents-per-share dividend plus $70bn buyback programme eclipsed this....
...The chime of ice is integral to bar soundscapes today – but it would have been a novelty for bar-goers (particularly in England) in the early- to mid-19th century, when the commercial ice trade was still...
...The American philosopher and sociologist Lewis Mumford once said: “You can judge the quality of a civilisation by the way it disposes of its waste.”...
...At the simplest level, the movie is an adaptation of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the 2020 non-fiction bestseller by American writer Isabel Wilkerson....
...The night before, also at the Royal Festival Hall, the Philharmonia Orchestra presented the first UK performance of a new Piano Concerto by American composer and guitarist Bryce Dessner....
...It’s not just a general aversion against novelty. There has been a lot of financial innovation over the past four decades after all....
...Wealthy Americans checked their own power between the 1930s and 1960s, accepting income tax rates of more than 90 per cent....
...That damaged the American national brand. Today, US brands such as Nike and Apple still evoke novelty in a way that European ones can’t....
...The initial focus when a law firm brings in innovations is on new tech and teams — often with unusual spellings to signal novelty....
...They have not faced much difficulty in establishing themselves, as there appears to be a novelty cultural element for Brits tapping into American fast-food brands....
...He’s also got some unpleasant authoritarian tendencies, though that’s hardly a novelty in Argentina or indeed among Latin American rulers calling themselves free-marketeers and supported by supposed libertarians...
...In the ’30s, envelope evening bags captured silver-screen glamour, and in the ’50s novelty styles made from wicker or Lucite reflected the postwar boom and increased optimism....
...The film could almost be a routine American-style scarer about teenagers messing with the dead, except that it does the job with so much more verve....
...Because customers are looking for novelty and there are many stories about successful independent brands. We don’t all need to be €10bn-€20bn brands to exist.”...
...At sunrise and sunset, their silhouettes almost recall the mesa country of the American West....
...I have ordered novelty socks. I have ordered Taylor Swift jewellery. There's no denying that Pinduoduo and Temu are selling huge amounts of merchandise to huge numbers of people around the world....
...At 85 she is considered one of the greatest — and most productive — living American writers, and has just published her 47th short-story collection (she has written so many books that profiles often dispute...
...The result has the crackle of an American thriller, but with a uniquely Milanese flavour....
...“In American society, we worship youth to the point of detriment,” says Black. “Showing the other side of that is valuable.” It’s a different kind of aspiration....
...Nothing pulls a crowd like blood in the water; not least the novelty of a shark doing the bleeding....
...The result can be delirious: a transcendent power chord of pointed dumbness from a film that treats its ursine star like a child does a favourite joke-shop novelty....
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