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It’s no accident that the Columbia University Marching Band, which goes out of its way to épater les bourgeois (and just about everyone else, lumpenproles included), has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and was named one of the 101 essential things in...

Author: By Justin B. Shubow, | Title: Miracle Whip Funnier Than Harvard Band | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

It's been six years since Fight Club, his first novel, made him a cult figure. It's been one year since Choke made him a best seller. But Chuck Palahniuk is still inconsolable. The sheer, emasculating plenty of bourgeois life, all that stuff you can buy--it still sends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Few Words to Die By | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

Dad is addicted to sleeping pills. His son is a pothead. The stepmother Mika (Isabelle Huppert) wanders about with a benign half-smile on her face, lacing the family's bedtime hot chocolate with a potent--and in her hands potentially lethal--soporific. The Swiss chateau is an unlikely stoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Merci Pour Le Chocolat | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

Emphasis on force: part of the reason bourgeois black groups were turned off by the genre is that it owed its world view to their antipodes--militant groups like the Black Panthers. Blaxploitation didn't have a dream; it had a shotgun. And if many of its heroes were pimps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Dig It? Right On! | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

Emphasis on force: part of the reason bourgeois black groups were turned off by the genre is that it owed its world view to their antipodes - militant groups like the Black Panthers. Blaxploitation didn't have a dream; it had a shotgun. And if many of its heroes were pimps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blaxploitation's Mass Appeal | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

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