Word: escapists
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...That escapist streak is evident in rave clothing, which tends toward loud primary colors, patterned wool caps and untucked shirts emblazoned with peace signs, happy faces and corporate logos. A key part of the look is "trip toys," or out-of-kilter trinkets and prankish paraphernalia like op-art jewelry, prism eyeglasses and fluorescent body paint. "A trip toy is something that will catch people's attention and make them smile," says Niles Peacock, who attends raves with a ball-point pen that transforms into a tiny soap-bubble blower. "The whole purpose is amusement...
...pretty people, glossy settings and featherweight romantic plots. Aaron Spelling may have begun his TV producing career with trendy cop shows (The Mod Squad, The Rookies) and helped create one of TV's most acclaimed family dramas (Family), but he will forever be known for a string of fluffy, escapist hits of the late '70s and early '80s: Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Hart to Hart and Dynasty...
...virtues are vanquished, and the Simpson family returns to the same banal, television-numbed, escapist life...
During the war in the gulf, the escapist magician made urgent reality inescapable. Television became spookier than usual in its metaphysical way: the instant global connection that is informative and hypnotic and jumpy all at once -- immediate and unreal. The sacramental anchormen dispensed their unctions and alarms. During the war, I found shelter in books in the middle of the night. They are cozier. The global electronic collective, the knife of the news, could wait until the sun came up. The mind prefers to be private in its sleepless stretches...
...would have been strengthened, for example, had he considered the role of the wilderness as the accepted zone for today's spiritual quests. Surely the modern citydweller's solitary journey to the mountains or the ocean in search of meaning and fulfillment is in a fundamental way a pessimistic, escapist denial of the possibilities that human society offers...