Word: genericism
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...creative" job, sensible wife, pretty child, starter home in Metroland, the generic name for London's middle-class suburbia. Chris (Christian Bale) also has something he doesn't need: his best friend from the swinging '60s, a wandering poet named Toni (Lee Ross), who lurches back into his life in the late '70s to taunt and tempt him. The taunts are about the road not taken--abandoned career in photography, abandoned girlfriend (sweet, sexy Elsa Zylberstein) from his years in Paris. The temptation is to return to youthful irresponsibility...
...Byrne implies, Americans have co-opted the stereotypes of the reveling Irish for their own purposes. In Boston, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated mainly in pseudo-Irish bars with a younger crowd. The Harp, a generic bar across from the FleetCenter, boasts that it is "the famous Irish Restaurant and Pub in Boston, Massachusetts" but there's little Irish about this place other than Guinness and Killian's on tap. "We have sort of an Irish theme," says Stolinsky, "but our entertainment is rock and roll and we serve pretty much American food." Perhaps to cover it's faux...
...Byrne implies, Americans have co-opted the stereotypes of the reveling Irish for their own purposes. In Boston, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated mainly in pseudo-Irish bars with a younger crowd. The Harp, a generic bar across from the FleetCenter, boasts that it is "the famous Irish Restaurant and Pub in Boston, Massachusetts" but there's little Irish about this place other than Guinness and Killian's on tap. "We have sort of an Irish theme," says Stolinsky, "but our entertainment is rock and roll and we serve pretty much American food." Perhaps to cover it's faux...
...complex to articulate, nor is my soul profaned in base expression--at Harvard I have simply developed a distaste for the "stylized-explicit," precision vocabulary that evades making any point at all. Section superstars, masters of this technique, have essentially unlocked the secret of the horoscope--by expressing generic thoughts with seemingly specific words, they magically persuade all those willing. While I relinquish most hope of being persuasive in class, at least my form and content are happily congruent in their ambiguity...
...complex to articulate, nor is my soul profaned in base expression--at Harvard I have simply developed a distaste for the "stylized-explicit," precision vocabulary that evades making any point at all. Section superstars, masters of this technique, have essentially unlocked the secret of the horoscope--by expressing generic thoughts with seemingly specific words, they magically persuade all those willing. While I relinquish most hope of being persuasive in class, at least my form and content are happily congruent in their ambiguity...