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		<title>The Girls of Spring Breakers: The Best Mashup of the Season?</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:13:43 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_293199" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/springbreakgirls.jpg"><img src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/springbreakgirls.jpg?w=300" alt="Spring Break forever...until you stick a Q-tip in your ear. (THR)" width="300" height="167" class="size-medium wp-image-293199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Spring Break forever...until you stick a Q-tip in your ear. (THR)</p></div>You see, we put a question mark in the title because that way you will click through to find out whether <em>The Hollywood Reporter</em>'s video combining scenes from <em>Spring Breakers</em> and HBO's <em>GIRLS</em> is as great as we question it to be. But the truth is, you already know the answer. You've known it all along, deep down. This is obviously the best mashup you will be seeing for awhile. Honestly, they had us at "<a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/spring-breakers-girls-mashup-james-430178">Spring Breakers meets Girls</a>." Enjoy.<br />
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<p>We'd actually go see this film. Wouldn't you?</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_293199" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/springbreakgirls.jpg"><img src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/springbreakgirls.jpg?w=300" alt="Spring Break forever...until you stick a Q-tip in your ear. (THR)" width="300" height="167" class="size-medium wp-image-293199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Spring Break forever...until you stick a Q-tip in your ear. (THR)</p></div>You see, we put a question mark in the title because that way you will click through to find out whether <em>The Hollywood Reporter</em>'s video combining scenes from <em>Spring Breakers</em> and HBO's <em>GIRLS</em> is as great as we question it to be. But the truth is, you already know the answer. You've known it all along, deep down. This is obviously the best mashup you will be seeing for awhile. Honestly, they had us at "<a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/spring-breakers-girls-mashup-james-430178">Spring Breakers meets Girls</a>." Enjoy.<br />
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<p>We'd actually go see this film. Wouldn't you?</p>
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		<title>&#8216;F-Bomb,&#8217; &#8216;Sexting&#8217; and &#8216;Aha Moment&#8217; Added to Dictionary</title>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:47:56 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Drew Grant</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_257409" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://observer.com/2012/08/f-bomb-sexting-and-aha-moment-added-to-dictionary/sexting/" rel="attachment wp-att-257409"><img class="size-medium wp-image-257409" title="Sexting" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/sexting.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Still need to define 'Sexting'</p></div></p>
<p>This year, 15 definitions will be added to the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Some of them are more than one word ('energy drink,' which clearly needed to be defined by someone other than the FDA)! Some of them only apply to Carly Rae Jepsen songs ('earworm')! Some of them come from Oprah ('aha moment'), while some are based on what your child is probably doing this very moment ('sexting')! Let's take a full look<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/14/us/new-dictionary-words/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader"> at the list of </a><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/14/us/new-dictionary-words/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader">yet-to-be-defined words</a>, shall we?<br />
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-mash-up<br />
-energy drink<br />
-f-bomb<br />
-copernicium<br />
-aha moment<br />
-game changer<br />
-gastropub<br />
-sexting<br />
-cloud computing<br />
-underwater (for mortgages)<br />
-systemic risk<br />
-man cave<br />
-earworm<br />
-bucket list<br />
-gassed</p>
<p>What a great way to dissect the world of 2012: so many pop-culture references (maybe next year <em><a href="http://observer.com/2012/08/meryl-streep-tommy-lee-jones-hope-springs-rex-reed-david-frankel/">Hope Springs</a></em> will make it into the dictionary alongside "bucket list") as well as all those words that allude to the financial crisis. An unusually slow year for techies, but a huge one for lazy man-children who DJ in their parents' basement. With the exception of copernicium (a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicium">terrifying addition</a>), this might be the most pop-centric year of the English language since 2001, when we added 'D'oh' to the Oxford English Dictionary.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_257409" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://observer.com/2012/08/f-bomb-sexting-and-aha-moment-added-to-dictionary/sexting/" rel="attachment wp-att-257409"><img class="size-medium wp-image-257409" title="Sexting" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/sexting.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Still need to define 'Sexting'</p></div></p>
<p>This year, 15 definitions will be added to the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Some of them are more than one word ('energy drink,' which clearly needed to be defined by someone other than the FDA)! Some of them only apply to Carly Rae Jepsen songs ('earworm')! Some of them come from Oprah ('aha moment'), while some are based on what your child is probably doing this very moment ('sexting')! Let's take a full look<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/14/us/new-dictionary-words/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader"> at the list of </a><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/14/us/new-dictionary-words/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader">yet-to-be-defined words</a>, shall we?<br />
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-mash-up<br />
-energy drink<br />
-f-bomb<br />
-copernicium<br />
-aha moment<br />
-game changer<br />
-gastropub<br />
-sexting<br />
-cloud computing<br />
-underwater (for mortgages)<br />
-systemic risk<br />
-man cave<br />
-earworm<br />
-bucket list<br />
-gassed</p>
<p>What a great way to dissect the world of 2012: so many pop-culture references (maybe next year <em><a href="http://observer.com/2012/08/meryl-streep-tommy-lee-jones-hope-springs-rex-reed-david-frankel/">Hope Springs</a></em> will make it into the dictionary alongside "bucket list") as well as all those words that allude to the financial crisis. An unusually slow year for techies, but a huge one for lazy man-children who DJ in their parents' basement. With the exception of copernicium (a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicium">terrifying addition</a>), this might be the most pop-centric year of the English language since 2001, when we added 'D'oh' to the Oxford English Dictionary.</p>
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