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...music proved to be neither silly nor blase, and it had none of the ironic distance the band's stage presence seemed to portend. What ensued instead was a furious and emotional foray into Perrino's consciousness and into the essence of rock and roll...
This inclination toward the blase is not unique to our treatment of the candidates for the council's top jobs. The same can be said for student attitudes toward star athletes, musicians or scientists. As much as we enjoy claiming famous alumni like Al Gore '69, Conan C. O'Brien '85 and Mira Sorvino '89, we are often unwilling to grant our fellow students the title of campus superstar...
...those British soccer fans. The $1 billion purchase brought on predictably apoplectic headlines from the British tabs--including MURDOCH MOST FOUL and GREED 4, HONESTY 1--and threats from fan associations and former players that they will stop supporting the team. The kerfuffle is in sharp contrast to the blase reaction when Murdoch bought the Los Angeles Dodgers for a piddling $350 million. Is there something Dodger fans don't know...
Perhaps most disappointing is the novel's blase treatment of important questions concerning race. Certain characters rally around stereotypical Afrocentric causes. Others, serving as archetypal liberals, are more open to the concept of inter-ethnic dating on the modern college campus. But essentially, Thomas-Graham does little more than state the fact that life as a black woman at Harvard is difficult, a point with which most of us certainly wouldn't disagree. Nowhere does she attempt to describe the significance of racial obstacles. Nowhere does she explain what methods, if any, Nikki uses to overcome imposed hardships. Thomas-Graham...
...There's no money in CDs or in the banks. And gold is ridiculous." Doroshow is emblematic of the massive faith in stocks that has gripped individuals across the country. Macie Huwiler, a Chicago advertising executive, is another such investor. "I'm one of those people who are basically blase" about the market, she says. "Virtually everything I have is in my 401(k), and since I can't touch any of it, I sort of figure, what the hell. There just doesn't seem to be any point in panicking...