Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hart that folks just didn't cotton to. Bill Clinton comes across as a struggling sinner and never implies that he's better than the people who voted for him. At his press conference last week Clinton noted that critics could affect his reputation but not his character. Pretty cool...
...curious way we're more likely to forgive cool guys than squares. At least they never promised to toe the line. That's why we're so harsh with ministers who fall from grace, like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart. Mark Twain once said that a man, if he's any good, never gets over being a boy. We like men in whom we can see the vestiges of the boy. You can still make out the flirtatious teenage horn player in Bill Clinton. Newt Gingrich--who last week deemed Clinton an "illegal man"--despite his love of dinosaurs, probably...
...Coolness and squareness both have their excesses. The problem with some cool guys is that they hold on to their rebelliousness long after it's romantic. The problem with some squares is that they lose the boy inside them altogether. But perhaps we're moving past the old dichotomies. Soon they'll become meaningless distinctions like mind and body. In Silicon Valley nerdiness is cool. Using drugs, once a sign of coolness, is considered square. Isn't it better, after all, to be a mixture, a cool square, a square cool...
...their summer slates a year in advance: one humongous action film leavened with some kid-targeted comedies and an adult thriller or two. Then, of course, everything goes wrong. "The most interesting thing this summer," says Harry Knowles Jr., the dweebmaster of the movie-gossip website Ain't It Cool News, "is that we don't have Warner's Superman film or Disney's Mighty Joe Young or Universal's Hulk coming out, as they were originally slated to. We've had three big dropouts...
...interest in was to flip a palm toward the speaker and say, "Talk to the hand." If I'm desperate for the latest ghetto slang these days, I'm reduced to lurking on the subway near clots of beautifully turned-out white boys who are trying to sound like cool dudes as they chat on their way to expensive private schools...