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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yuppie angst. This is obvious in Fight Club: the entire movie is centered around the premise that yuppie poster boy Edward Norton finds escape from his micromanaged world only when he is pounding someone else to a pulp with his bare hands. Everything is frenetic, violent, and rough-cut in retaliation against the stuffy conformity of yuppie existence: in this angst-ridden world, movies have violent spurts of hardcore pornography, people commit random acts of senseless whoopass, the corporate oppressor gets his well-deserved comeuppance only after a violent "brawl"-even soap is not the innocuous cleansing agent you might...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: hush, yuppies: would you like some whine with your cheese? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...stoned to care), making every yupster on the planet nostalgic for their childhood daze free of micromanagement. Young urban professionals did flock to the adorable car, charmed by its revamped but just as roly-poly look (an adorable sleekness of sorts) but truly won over by its clean-cut practicality (35 miles to the gallon). Yet this year VW was forced to introduce a new New Beetle with a juiced-up "Turbonium" engine (George Jetson would swoon). It seemed the innocuous, angst-free image of the New Beetle just wasn't cutting it with America's angst-free consumers...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: hush, yuppies: would you like some whine with your cheese? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...hands-on guy. He was always very excited about his work," Chan said. "He'd jump right in and show students how to solder and cut metal...

Author: By Kevin H. Yip, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prestige, Pinocchios Entice Marcus to Physics Department | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...cut the QRR bullshit and rename the new core department, Future Analyst Reasoning Requirement. Even the book itself allows gimmicky advertisements from Mckinsey, Trilogy and Credit Suisse more than half its pages (earning HSA a pretty penny), creating a future business person's "little green book." (This is the Harvard student...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recruting Your Career | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...seniors have stopped defending their capitalist proclivities. We have cut out the standard qualifier, " I know it is a sell-out but..." from descriptions of our future career plans. It has become an accepted fact--money, which will wine, dine and allure us in the coming recruiting season, talks. The week's slogan: show me the money...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recruting Your Career | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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