Word: blased
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...General Store have dropped. Twelve-year-old Dean Hotaling isn't playing as much basketball as he used to. ("I watch about three hours a day now. I used to watch one hour.") And the barrage of TV news has quickly turned local viewers into members of the blase class. Says Henry Rogers, 53, the town's supervisor: "We're getting sick of the O.J. business, just like everybody else...
...Tarantino, Roger Avary is a graduate of clerking in video stores -- the new film school. But Avary, who worked with Tarantino on True Romance and Pulp Fiction, has not yet found his voice, at least to judge from Killing Zoe, a noisy heist film with Eric Stoltz as the blase American in Paris...
They were there, though, because Cobain conveyed meaning and even beauty in his harsh recordings. His lyrics could be sour, occasionally frightening if opaque. Take these simultaneously blase and acerbic lines from the group's biggest hit, Smells Like Teen Spirit: "And I forget just why I taste/ Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile/ I found it hard, it was hard to find/ Oh well, whatever, never mind." Cobain's sometimes fierce, sometimes weary growl, the sometimes convulsive, sometimes grating guitars, the very loud drums: all of it communicated anger, maybe loathing, definitely passion, no matter how inchoate...
...simply are not led to believe that Charles is so enchanted by a woman who looks at him with expressions that alternate between bored and blase. When Carrie arrives at Wedding Number Two childishly brandishing her wealthy, doddering fiance, Hamish, like a new toy, we wonder why Charles doesn't simply ignore her. Instead we see a frazzled Hugh Grant whimpering like a wounded puppy. While Newell gets some laughs out of rather predictable run-ins with Charles' exgirlfriends, this whole interlude of petty jealousies, social faux pas, and missed connections again skirts the question of just why Charles...
...only the rattled citizens of the real Los Angeles could be quite so blase. If only they could take their umpteenth aftershock so much in stride. Instead they are suffering sharp and lingering emotional tremors from the 6.8- magnitude Northridge earthquake on Jan. 17 that killed 57 people and caused $15 billion in damage -- and they don't mind showing it. The original hyperactivity -- and some panic -- has been followed by delayed shock and a period of numbness, and now, more than a month later, by an abiding anxiety. Few doubt that Los Angeles has been taking it harder than...