Word: fascistes
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...Miller's Tale, pop culture referencing, shaggy-dog stories, sitcoms, absurdism, or one-liners? Why can humor be so fascist or dismissive...
Perhaps I'm being too harsh. After all, today's fashion does lean towards conformity. Gap does sound strangely fascist in their ads that chant "everyone in cords." But when I brought the topic up with my friends, they not only agreed with me, they added to my list of complaints. "Look at how they depict women!" my roommate intoned. Indeed, to the dismay of our Harvard rugby team, the Abercrombie girls were ignominiously relegated to the sidelines and depicted as screaming rugby fans, rather than players. In the boxing spread, the girls were shown having their gloves tied...
...also has a dark and problematical double, the weird, smart boy next door. His name is Ricky (Wes Bentley). He deals drugs underneath the crazy nose of his abusive father (Chris Cooper), a retired Marine colonel of the neo-fascist persuasion, and creepily stalks Lester's daughter with his everpresent camcorder, eventually winning her because of the purity of his subversive nature. He is, perhaps, everything Lester might have been, if he had not long ago compromised himself. This also, perhaps, explains why Jane falls in love with...
There is no doubt, however, about Draskovic's courage. He led antigovernment demonstrations in Belgrade in 1991. In 1993, out in the streets again to fight Milosevic's "Nazi fascist combination," he was arrested, beaten and jailed for 50 days. Since then, Draskovic has played a different game, shifting in and out of opposition. Just before NATO bombs began falling, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and became a ubiquitous apologist for his country. But in April, after criticizing Milosevic's policies in Kosovo, he was fired...
...Scottish musicians to produce an album and release 1,000 copies. The group, which was later signed to a British and then American label, have rapidly put out two LPs and four EPs (members in the band pressing two additional full-length albums as side-projects). In the quasi-fascist recording environment of label-dominated markets, this is almost unheard of production...