Word: containment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inclined to say that the show does contain redeeming humor. In a variety of ways, it pokes fun at humor itself; most twenty something people are laughing at people who would laugh at them," he said. "Younger people, on the other hand...
...that inheres in a peer's extravagances is undercut by the fact that Wurtzel is neither a good writer nor an appealing individual. She comes off as an irritating, solipsistic brat. Wurtzel is interested not in depression as a phenomenon, but in her own depression, so her narrative will contain little interest even for depressed Harvard students, who would seem to be the perfect audience. Wurtzel views everything through the prism of her personal hell, so everything ends up being about her, including a lot of things that shouldn't be. For example, she imagines her lover lost somewhere...
Kinchla said undergraduate listings, however, were submitted before the start of the year and should contain fewer errors...
...nines. You could argue, as writer-director Michael Tolkin doubtless did when he was pitching The New Age, that they are perfect exemplars of chic anomie as it manifests itself in postmodern -- or postrational -- Los Angeles. You could also argue, as people whose malls don't yet contain an Issey Miyake boutique might, that they are hopeless twits...
Fenmore, who is originally from Beverly Hills, said she still has the storage receipt which indicates that the missing box was supposed to contain the two televisions, valued at $600, and a printer, which she found in another...