Since the turn of the 20th century, companies have picked nebulous names such as Amalgamated Holdings Limited and Consolidated Products Incorporated after undergoing mergers and reorganizations.
As sensitive and open-minded as I like to think I am towards all genres of film, I find myself behaving like most guys when it comes to the dreaded chick flick, especially if it's based on a best-selling novel or has a nebulous, nondescript name that could mean anything or nothing.
By Charles Cooke and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, March 7 , 1936P. 15 Talk story about the League for a Woman President and Vice-President, 110 E. 42 St., a nebulous organization whose name has been changed to League for Women in Public Office, so as not to alarm the public.
Put another way, 216 people spent nearly 11,000 times the amount an average family of four makes in an entire year on vapid attack ads produced by nebulous groups with names like "Americans for a More American America".
I realize that sounds pretty nebulous, so I'll name a few artists I feel fall into this category: Alizzz, Wave Racer, AWE, Deon Custom, and Bo En.
It's a case of escalation on all sides, with every innovation a further opportunity to keep track of everyone and everything in the name of a nebulous good.
For those too young or too old to remember, blog house was the name given to a nebulous set of records that shared an inherently garish visual and sonic aesthetic.
Published under her maiden name, Louise Bagshawe, the books have nebulous-yet-girly titles like "Glitz," "Sparkles," and "Glamour," and feature the usual array of brainy-but-beautiful chick-lit heroines.
And Hamas is acting with renewed harshness towards dissent, especially against "Tamarod" ("Revolt"), a nebulous group echoing Egypt's anti-Islamist movement of the same name.
It feels a nebulous thing, but it goes back to the power of names.
