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...last word in a hipster style all the more fascinating for its plain links to squaredom. The minute that grunge thing came along, circa 1990, you knew it was only a matter of time before Sinatra and the Rat Pack came back into fashion. Uncombed hair and flannel shirts cried out for a counterattack of sharp dressing and flip courtliness with women. Thus "lounge music," cool and dressy, then swing music, hot and dressy, plus a bar scene where lounge lizards aren't dinosaurs anymore. Then the film Swingers, about two guys making their way through the world on terms...
...money bought a house or two. In the Oedipal drama of the counterculture, Frank was the daddy-o who must die. He could swing his raincoat over his shoulder and cock his hat all night. Compared to Jim Morrison, he still looked like the man in the gray flannel suit...
...sinking suspicion that leads me to squirm over the static nature of my wardrobe. For unlike those of us born in the Carter administration, when the high school kids of the new millennium begin to strut their stuff, they won't be doing so in L.L. Bean flannel...
Abercrombie's apparel is functional, but all that flannel smacks of Middelbury, Amherst and Williams, not the sophisticated image we in the Square like to maintain. More importantly, without local access to Express, where will the clubhoppers among us buy their form-fitting black pants and satin camisoles...
...wait for the day when all the episodes of your favorite TV shows are available online, so you can watch whatever you want to watch when you want to watch it? If you're a fan of South Park, the foul-mouthed, flannel-board-style cartoon on Comedy Central, that day is here. Scores of Websites, from Mr. Hat's Hellhole to www.YouKilledKenny.com are giving away bootleg copies of the cable-TV show. I smelled an intellectual-property-rights disaster in the making--how long can this go on?--so I called Joe Hager, the 19-year-old sophomore...