Word: cutting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After Helena Bonham Carter and Brad Pitt have an acrobatic sex session in Fight Club, Carter's character breathes a heavy sigh of relief and says, "That's the best f--- I've had since grade school." Now word has leaked out that the original line that was eventually cut was: "I want you to get my pregnant. I want to have your abortion." Oh, how I love witty dialogue... Michael Jackson just got another divorce. How sad. But then again, he never even lived with this wife. They lived in different cities, never saw each other, and Michael pretty...
...greater than the aesthetic or moral shock of the exhibit may be its political repercussions. Here New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has raised a stink of his own. The mayor cut the museums municipal funding of $7 million annually, citing his belief that public funding should not subsidize the establishment or desecration of religion...
...idea of "yuppie angst" seems inherently oxymoronic. Yuppies are clean-cut, clear-headed people with successful jobs, shiny new sport utility vehicles, a weak spot for IKEA furniture, and happy families barbecuing behind white-picket fences. With such stability in their lives, what could yupsters possibly have to be all worked up about or dissatisfied with? Well, precisely that: stability. As Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden mentions in Fight Club, thirty-somethings are the "middle children of history:" forgotten in the shadow of those who come before and after them. Yuppies are expected to make it through somehow, become...
...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...
...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...