Word: dewitt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dewitt points out (see story, page 11), New York is fast becoming the sort of place that makes you want to root for Nature...
Despite his frequent trans-global excursions Dewitt spends a lot of time hangin' out in New York City observing urban decay and blight at its finest...
Being a pseudonym and all, Dewitt has no scruples about admitting his fervent love for the teen sex flick (TSF). Sex is better than violence, of course, and the glut of films featuring pasty-faced male adolescents getting their weenies in an uproar over outrageously mature-looking 15-year-old femmes fatales has left Dewitt standing in line with any number of pre-pubescent townies to slap down a fiver for this particular pleasure...
...enough to say that post-Animal House TSFs have been bad. They have been frightfully horrid. But to stop at that smug conclusion would be snobbish, and Dewitt has been trying for years to understand the culture of kitsch...
Question: What do Caesar and Madonna have in common? Answer: immortality. No, Dewitt is not talking about a certain greasy salad dressing or the lint-free bellybutton. Augustus and Madonna have given us the most prized possession of historians and glibmeisters: the buzzword, what historians who like to use foreign languages call (and italicize) the zeitgeist. Augustus gave us the Augustan age; Madonna has given us the Age of Desperation...