Word: disaffectedness
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The X-Games legitimize the pursuits of disaffected suburban youth. But not the truly disenfranchised. You have to be pretty tight with someone who owns a boat to learn to barefoot-waterski-jump, or have some serious spare cash to go up in a plane to sky-surf. These are...
It has always been cool to be in Generation X. Wearing black Gap turtlenecks and sipping lattes, the archetypal Gen Xers project an image that is hip and urbane. Disaffected with politics, cynical of pop culture, they are eager to catalogue the offenses of the baby boomers who inflated the...
But instead of spontaneous outpourings of agape in the spiritual centers of our new community--the cafes of Barker, Loker and the Coop--I find only double lattes bubbling forth, not human understanding, and the solitary and studious, not the concerned and informed. The goings on of administrators often dominate...
When Ron Carey won the race for Teamsters president in 1991, he rode to power behind dissidents who had risked their jobs, and their lives, to fight mob control of their locals. But even before a federal overseer barred him from running again--the court had already nullified his re...
While parts of Chautauqua are serene, Jamestown is a small, beaten-down city where for years drugs and homelessness have made their mark. Authorities say Williams moved to the community in 1995 to see family and allegedly to sell narcotics. A self-proclaimed member of the Bloods street gang and...