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Entertainment

The art or field of entertaining, especially that provided by performers.

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sitcom

Culture; Popular culture

A situation comedy; humor based on everyday events and the interaction of a small group of characters.

soap opera

Culture; Popular culture

Serialized radio or television fiction dealing melodramatically with the daily traumas and of ten highly charged love-lines of a group of characters; so called because originally ...

soul music

Culture; Popular culture

Commercially successful black American music of the 1960s on, which combined gospel with blues styles.

status symbol

Culture; Popular culture

Any obvious sign of a person' s wealth or social prestige.

streamlining

Culture; Popular culture

Fluid shaping, which increases performance by reducing water- or air-resistance; in the 1930s it was employed as a style on a wide range of objects.

street fashion

Culture; Popular culture

Avant-garde styles, which originate on the city streets and not in fashion salons.

swing

Culture; Popular culture

Smooth and rhythmical, dance-oriented orchestral jazz, popular from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s, usually arranged for big bands.

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