Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Would you call anyone "Head Negro in Charge"? Even if subject Henry Louis Gates Jr. was not offended, not a sensitive call...
...only much later that I learned to call these novels noir, or to think about them as part of an American tradition of mystery writing and film. At the time they dominated my inner life...
...consistently fail to live up to set standards. Columnists, too, are guilty of the sin of coherence--they attempt to make meaning of the world on a daily basis. They tell you why Bill Clinton sent a brooch to Monica Lewinsky, what possessed the editors at Boston Magazine to call Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. "Head Negro in Charge," and how a Harvard economist was lured to Columbia with $300,000. Such ex post facto explanations serve to enhance perceptions of coherence. But if coherence is such a grand objective to pursue, why does it take so much damn work...
...ingrained in American minds and society ("Mr. President, was there a relationship?" "There is no relationship." "Yeah, but was there a relationship?" "There is no relationship"). So, despite the obvious inadequacies of the vague terms, those students fortunate enough to be "hooking up" will have to be content to call it...what-ever they want...
...Noir I": "I'm in a bad mood/Fit to kill/One might say/Not that I would/Just don't give me a weapon." Perhaps not quite as arresting as Raymond Chandler, but at least killing things is a reasonably noir concept. Daring browsers can unmask this dark poet brash enough to call herself Catwoman simply by clicking on the little kitty, with anticlimactic results--Catwoman's portrait displays a homely sixteen-year old posing in front of a couple of butterfly stickers. Her frumpy red dress doesn't do much to complete the Cat motif either; a visit to boudoir-noir.com might...