Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really cool thing was that one day I looked at the cover of the [Harvard] Gazette and saw the doctor who had run the experiment and he was making headlines with his research. And I was one of the subjects who allowed him to figure out how memory works," Stern said...
...surface of things" runs the constant refrain of the novel, and while Glamorama's 482 pages of vacuous characters provoke a desire to surface, to break out of the trap of celebrity, it also points out the pervasive nature of glamor. Ellis is often more interested in being cool than actual meaning (the novel opens with a Hitler quote); with Glamorama, he seems to be saying that this is the only truth we all share
...midspring that Sosa launched a sudden torrent of home runs like none ever seen in baseball history--he hit 20 in June alone--the two men were flawlessly scripted antagonists cast in the same play. This was rapture vs. gravity, spontaneity vs. self-restraint, Latin brio vs. California cool. Their collision seemed inevitable; yet what ensued was less a crash than a hug. The two men cheered each other on, praised each other's skills, slapped hands, dissipated the heat. They became allies in this drama, united against the two-digit foe that lay blandly impassive in the record books...
...boozy bonhomie and dazed snarling. The raging losers here often seem like sullen stereotypes. We could also have done without Nolte's self-crucifixion scene. But the actor finds truth in Wade's emotional clumsiness, in the despair of a man who hasn't the tools or the cool to survive. There are too many of these men in life, and not enough films that tell their sad tales. That gives Affliction a therapeutic worth...
...college senior and science major who knows little about business, I think it is important for the members of Generation X to learn who helped push this great nation forward. My favorite is air conditioning's "King of Cool," Willis Carrier. He is responsible for the refreshing air we live, work and play in--and take for granted. JASON ASHBURN Blacksburg...