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  • Other awarded projects include vet Mexican helmer Arturo Ripstein's "Las Razones del corazon," described as a contempo Mexican "Madame Bovary," teaming Mexico's Kmz and Spain's Wanda Vision, and Marcelo Tolces 'youth drama "18 cigarillos y medio," a three-way co-production between Mexico's Canaca Holdings, Paraguay's 18 y Medio Films and Spain's Tornasol.

    Variety.com 2009

  • Other awarded projects include vet Mexican helmer Arturo Ripstein's "Las Razones del corazon," described as a contempo Mexican "Madame Bovary," teaming Mexico's Kmz and Spain's Wanda Vision, and Marcelo Tolces 'youth drama "18 cigarillos y medio," a three-way co-production between Mexico's Canaca Holdings, Paraguay's 18 y Medio Films and Spain's Tornasol.

    Variety.com 2009

  • We added a few additional ingredients to give it that 'contempo' feel (i.e. hemp seeds), and christened it the 'Gorilla 2K.'

    Guerilla Cookies 1971, and the Best Ever Cookie Jar Lindy 2007

  • "What's in a gnome?" asks Juliet, who spends a lot of her down time up on a pedestal — a fountain pedestal in the backyard garden of an old-fashioned house in a retro-contempo Stratford-Upon-Avon.

    'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • This contempo transformation is one of the capital affidavit for an added ell accustomed amidst the youth. to abrasion accurate NFL jerseys, which has now become a alone actualization account

    Think Progress » Disgraced Hospital Executive Rick Scott Launches Bid For Gov, Directs Contributions To His Investment Firm 2010

  • It was an instrumental band, the brainchild of someone at the Gunnell Agency, designed to cover the Stax soul sound of Booker T & the MGs organ-based contempo R&B that the agency billed as "Cool Blue Pop."

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • This was Fleetwood Mac, but very contempo L.A. It was a love song, but the subtext was that we desperately needed a couple of heroes to replace the ones we had lost.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • So, Variety made the announcement today that, and this is a direct quote, the plans call for a contempo take on things.

    That Sound You’re Hearing Is A Gilligan’s Island Remake | Manolith 2010

  • With Brad Copeland penning the screenplay, plans are for a contempo on the well-known premise and characters.

    That Sound You’re Hearing Is A Gilligan’s Island Remake | Manolith 2010

  • But: "Commercial appeal to a young contempo audience is conceivable but decidedly questionable."

    GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Chicago 10. 2007

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  • I use the made-up word "contempo" to refer in a pejorative way to a kind of faux-modern, dishonest design style (in architecture, interiors and industrial design) that pretends to be modern or industrial but that often involves too many pointless curves, materials meant to look like other materials, or ornateness at war with a pretend minimalism. - Ouno

    November 5, 2012