His interview shyness created a sense of Prince-like obscurity.
In this week's issue, John Colapinto writes about the introduction of the açaí fruit in the United States and its "Miley Cyrus-like trajectory from obscurity to hype, critical backlash, and eventual ubiquity".
Since then, the fruit has followed a cycle of popularity befitting a teen-age pop singer: a Miley Cyrus-like trajectory from obscurity to hype, critical backlash, and eventual ubiquity.
By Jon Michaud May 20, 2011 In this week's issue, John Colapinto writes about the introduction of the açaí fruit in the United States and its "Miley Cyrus-like trajectory from obscurity to hype, critical backlash, and eventual ubiquity".
True to expectation, he is an awkward fit there; he doesn't like living in obscurity compared to his previous high profile, and the independent CIA operatives didn't like being bossed around.
Traditionally, the danger with that kind of thing is that it can look like haughty obscurity for obscurity's sake, or, worse, wearyingly petulant.
Soon the party may be able to fight as many battles over personality as it likes, in the obscurity of opposition.
No fewer than four drivers entered to Jason Aldean (Aric Almirola, Jeff Burton, David Stremme, and Martin Truex, Jr ., three to AC/DC (Greg Biffle, Jamie McMurray, and Juan Pablo Montoya), and two went with Ram Jam's "Black Betty," an AC/DC-like blues-rock obscurity from 1977.
There, too, he discovered the dubious delights of several second-division punk groups that have long since faded into obscurity, the likes of the Boys, the Cortinas, Eater, Headache, Slaughter and the Dogs, the Snivelling Shits… Mott also started collecting fanzines, flyers and posters.
He wasn't an apparition rising out of obscurity, like Elvis Presley.
For each of us, I've imagined the quintessential Hollywood story — plucked from obscurity like Lana Turner at the soda fountain at Schwab's.
