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Upon receiving a mandate by the UC, Long and Johnson added a disclaimer to the platform page of their site, warning readers that a significant portion of their proposals are a “derivative?? of Bowman and Hysen’s platform, and that Long and Johnson “believe our use of it to be fair as parody...
...saved me from the influence of its perfection—I’d taught myself to write in Gardner’s style, though not as well.” That novel also deals heavily in the fallout of the Flower Generation, though its essence is more directly derivative??drug abuse, madness, and poetic flourishes of violence—with stretches of American badland serving as a surrogate for the frontier, to be conquered by Greyhound.Reading “Fat City” in the summer of 2009, one is reminded of Darren Aronofsky?...
...Other varsity sports teams follow this trend as well. Both men’s and women’s basketball lack a single science concentrator, while the softball team contains only one athlete in a science-based derivative??the social and cognitive neurosciences track of the psychology department...
...smaller, similarly predictable subplots that seem to start and end every 20 minutes. To their credit, Fleder and Leavitt do an admirable job of situating Davis’s plight within the context of a racially fraught era and the accompanying civil rights movement. Yet even this element feels derivative??with its ethic of racial harmony by virtue of athletic success, “The Express” calls to mind “Remember the Titans” more than it ought to.Still, despite its staleness, fan of the sports movie will find plenty to like...
...lead singer, announced that their 2006 LP would be among the best albums of the past twenty years. And then “Sam’s Town” finally dropped, and it turned out that by “best” Flowers meant “derivative?? and “pompous.” Cue the indie backlash...