Word: bueller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their part, students are depicted as at their most alive when they have as little to do with school as possible. Huck and Holden light out for their respective territories; Ferris Bueller is the god of glorious truancy. Or make an Animal House, and trash the joint. School is anticreativity, antifreedom, anti-American--an attitude only logically contradicted by a society that insists on higher education for all and accreditations up to the eyeballs...
...humor. I think that is quite obvious in the way Lat scrutinizes AFARM. He thinks naming their official positions after character in the Marquis de Sad's 120 Days of Sodom is "highly offensive." But is Lat any better after his pirates an obscure quote from the movie "Ferris, Bueller's Day Off," changing it to become his choice for AFARM's new motto: "We fight morality with lost of pluck, 'cause we're some students who like to..." To utilize and propagate the stereotype of the sex-obsessed perverted homosexual is offensive, not to mention somewhat ridiculous...
...word choice reminds me of the last time I heard the word "pluck." It was in that cinematic classic "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," when a nurse visits the Bueller household to cheer up the allegedly sick Ferris...
...feel manipulated when Aaron ultimately comes out as the king of the hill, beating the odds of the Depression. Careful not to portray Aaron as a slick and smug Ferris Bueller type, Bradford plays him as a wide-eyed, ingenious little boy who is as amazeds as we are when he does triumph...
...topping the charts? Well, how about a balding Oklahoma country singer whose idols include James Taylor and John Wayne, who prances across stage like a cross between Mick Jagger and Ferris Bueller, swinging from rope ladders and smashing his guitar, and who brings 40-year-olds to tears with his existential hymns about accepting life's incidental malice? Rock may be moribund, but Garth Brooks sure is thriving...