Word: folkish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where they were born and raised, they present contrasting faces to the outside world. Victor wants to be silent, stoic, dangerously enigmatic--sort of an old-fashioned movie Indian. Thomas, who seems to be Alexie's surrogate, is, in contrast, a slightly nerdy puppy. And a motormouth, spinning funny, folkish tales, trying to humanize his wary friend and ingratiate himself with strangers...
...Your Arsenal" suffer from the same flatness. "Certain People I know" makes a limp attempt at a country western sound, proving that this child of England's industrial wasteland is simply not cut out to headline at the Grand Ol' Opry. Most of the other tracks are just folkish filler. The only entertaining thing about the aimless, boring "We Hate it When Our Friends Succeed" is the title. It's mystery how he's managed to eke a hit out of the meager, colorless tune...
...fair's green themes seem more with-it. Hungary's folkish, quasi- ecclesiastical pavilion was built out of Hungarian lumber by an imported team of Hungarian carpenters; it has a solitary, mysterious-looking hydroponic oak tree growing inside. The Netherlands' eco-pavilion is exemplary, novel and fun. An open steel superstructure crisscrossed by escalators and ramps, this not-quite-a-building is wrapped, as if by a Whole Earth Christo, in perpetually waterlogged canvas netting, meant to cool the interior by 10 degrees or more. Expo '92, like the 1939 and 1964 world's fairs, also has its obligatory giant...
...must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions...And thus the folkish state above all will never be created by the compromising will of a folkish working confederation, but soley by the iron will of a single movement that has fought its way to the top against...