Word: directionless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These seemingly directionless elaborations, you realize happily at the end, are all part of a grand design. The director wraps up all the intentionally frayed loose ends and cleverly dropped clues in an impressively tight, albeit overly direct, resolution. This finely crafted mystery within the spectacle of it all proves that while almost all of the onscreen characters lose their heads, Burton keeps his screwed on tight...
...there is a tendency to view critically one generation in light of its immediate predecessor. Baby-boomers who grew up during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam war have somewhat derisively labeled our generation "Generation X"--which, over the years, has come to mean directionless, apathetic, even lazy. Some argue that when they were in college they went out and protested--marched, made noise and, on occasion, found themselves locked up for their principled civil disobedience. All we do, on the other hand, is shop, watch television and complain...
Coupland, author of bestsellers Microserfs and Generation X, both acclaimed for their caustic portraits of jaded twentysomethings, presents another foray into the minds of the hollow, the directionless, the lonely and the poorly-adjusted of the MTV generation. Through their offbeat, media-savvy voices, he opens up a philosophical debate on meaning (or lack thereof) in the modern world, on the detrimental effects of technology on society and the environment, and on the need to challenge the established system...
...here. The pseudo-family of down-and-out drug-users and drifters in Shopping are--like the characters in Trainspotting, a stage version of which preceded the film (both based on Irvine Welsh's novel)--the alienated youth of Britain, uneasily poised between self-fulfillment and self-degradation, displaced, directionless and dispossessed...
...Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin or presidential chief of staff Anatoly Chubais, leaving the largest country in the world on hold. Economic growth remains negative, while millions of people are still without their government pensions or pay. Until Yeltsin either steps down or passes away, Russia will likely continue its directionless drift...