Word: cleverisms
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...Thorn's dreary vocals and Watt's creative instrumental mischief is intentional to achieve a wasteland acoustic for Watt's sensitive lyrics. But, no. The only piece that holds up is "Five Fathoms," and that's because it's the first time you hear Thorn. From thereon, Watt's clever intros are continually hijacked by Thorn's living-deadpan delivery. "Compression" is a joy for being jungle-smacked and free of her (except in adulterated form). Temperamental is really Watt's project after the last three years of underground DJ-ing. The girl makes it quickly tiresome...
Roger D. Hodge is not afraid of this kind of behavior. His Harper's Magazine review of Jedediah Purdy '97's first book, For Common Things, is one of the most vitriolic and least clever put-downs I have ever read; when its negativity is contrasted with Purdy's obvious and infectuous enthusiasm for the many things he loves and praises, the review also begins to seem strikingly sad. In his preface, Purdy boyishly admits that his book is "one young man's letter of love": it is this vulnerability that makes Purdy a moving and an effective narrator. That...
...begins. Popular girl (Hart) and rebel boy (Adrian Grenier) are neighbors. Popular girl wants popular boy. Rebel boy wants rebel girl. Popular girl and rebel boy feign coupledom (Can't Buy Me Love style) to make the ones that they only think they love absolutely smitten with jealously. Rather clever, eh? Of course you must factor in the "in"-crowd sunning in the courtyard (complete with a 90's style flagrant homosexual) and the outies making life miserable for the innies--in a way that anyone who was not a J. Crew pedagogue in high school can appreciate. Sprinkle...
...Delphic: This bastion of Greek culture has a wonderful library with both first edition works of prominent social theorists and a stunning collection of original Mapplethorpe prints. In fact, the clever allusion in the name to the Greek fount of Western society betrays (some would say obfuscates) an adherence to, as one club member argues, "an enlightenment ethos which struggles to maintain its integrity in a fractured post-modern society...
This is where I have to admit that Erich and Max were clever in persisting in what I abandoned. When the first computer games were unveiled, the FRP versions were about as exciting as doorbells. No action. There was, I concluded, no future in this. Especially as I was just discovering the opposite sex. Better roles; better fantasies. Erich and Max, sitting in front of their Apple II computer and its 32 K of memory, just didn't seem headed anywhere I wanted to go as a hormonally drenched 16-year...