Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more angst than you could scrub out with a bar of Fight Club's Paper Street soap. After that came Mallrats and Chasing Amy, more dismally delightful chronicles of the post-yuppie malaise, all starring the director (in a requisite self-referential flourish) as the omnipresent Silent Bob. Not content with Stillman's trilogy concept, Smith has spawned an entire cottage industry with this year's forthcoming release of Dogma (with Alanis Morissette, which is Canadian for "25-year-old angst queen," in the role...
...stage, brother and sister Marc and Sharon were as disturbingly huggy as they are in the video for "Steal My Sunshine." Aside from that, the three guys scrambled around gamely, while Sharon was content to remain anchored in place while bobbing up and down. Len seemed genuinely shocked at their warm reception--in the encore Marc remarked that they usually don't have to come out again because, "we're running out the back 'cause they're chasing us away." I don't necessarily blame these hostile crowds--what if you went to Britney Spears and got Wu-Tang...
...peoples self-definition, and so central to the way they conceive of themselves and relate to the Universe, that public funding of what might legitimately be perceived as their desecration is downright wrong. Neither is this tantamount to censorship--desecrate at will in your home, display to your hearts content in private galleries. But don't demand that others pay for your vision...
...more angst than you could scrub out with a bar of Fight Club's Paper Street soap. After that came Mallrats and Chasing Amy, more dismally delightful chronicles of the post-yuppie malaise, all starring the director (in a requisite self-referential flourish) as the omnipresent Silent Bob. Not content with Stillman's trilogy concept, Smith has spawned an entire cottage industry with this year's forthcoming release of Dogma (with Alanis Morissette, which is Canadian for "25-year-old angst queen," in the role...
...conceptions of American problems such as violence and work on selling the public on solutions that won't fit into a soundbite. Having the courage to step forward and truly say something means facing the fallout of critics, but only an immature or rapidly diminishing political system can be content with slogans in the place of ideas. Debates can only bring us closer to a campaign that tackles tough concerns, and candidates offered a debate should prove their seriousness by accepting as soon as their campaign manager clears the space...