It's absolutely the time to embrace your favoured social scene, preferably in full, colourful resplendence.
Ricky Gervais has cited the reality series Airport (1996) as the original source of inspiration for The Office – firmly rooting the genesis of this comic form in a decidedly pre-millennium idea of television; one that favoured slow-moving scenes and mildly eccentric characters over the high-octane, and higher-drama, American reality television that would come in the following decade.
Guy Picciotto (who was later a founding member of the influential hard-core group Fugazi) and his band, Rites of Spring, launched the subgenre when they moved away from a punk scene that sometimes favoured attitude over substance, and they put the focus of the music and lyrics on personal pain and suffering.
Though the multilingual author and one-time diplomat translates urbanely for the few monoglots, the scene illustrates one of his favoured themes: the Latino cultural "reconquest" of Mexican territory lost to the United States in the 19th century.
Streams of pilgrims make the trip here to offer rice and sweets to their favoured deity, and the temples are a perennial scene of swirling colour and spiritual life.
Man Portable Air Defence Systems (ManPADs) have been a favoured anti aircraft weapon since their appearance on the military proliferation scene in the mid 1960s.
A favoured papal residence in the Middle Ages, it was in 1223 the scene of a meeting between Pope Honorius III and the emperor Frederick II.
There are gratuitous sex scenes and shout-outs to acquaintances, discussions of favoured writers and unhinged digressions.
He has appointed union insiders to top jobs, allowed Congress to add "buy American" provisions to the stimulus bill, risked a trade war with China to please tyre-workers, let other trade deals wither and brazenly favoured unions when bailing out car firms.In this section Scenes from a counter-revolution Ryan to the rescue?
It's that last group in which the drug's use is most visible, in the chemsex scene, where drone and GHB have emerged as the two most favoured types of party fuel.
