Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deterrent. Others point to the strong economy and say that in a nation where seemingly everybody's little brother is in on a hot IPO, now more than ever crime doesn't pay. And demographers say it's simply the fact that there are now fewer young men, the group statistically most likely to be committing crimes...
Three years ago, we sat together in Annenberg, learning about each others successes in viola and hockey, in public service and debate. Now, History and Literature and Folk and Myth students will crowd together with Economics concentrators to hear about the Boston Consulting Group. Harvard has a stake in producing as many of these types as possible; consultant/banker/technology whizzes will chair the alumni campaign of 2030 or maybe donate a computer lab when the brand new Maxwell Dworkin is outdated...
...bands are getting greedy. Earlier last week, the Backstreet Boys initiated a legal tussle with Jive Entertainment, the same group that nurtured N'Sync. But now, N'Sync's former management is slapping them with a lawsuit. The stakes? If N'Sync loses, they'll lose the rights to the songs that now comprise their yet-unreleased second album. And to who will the rights revert back? Maybe...The Backstreet Boys. Can you imagine the BSB releasing N'Sync's second album as their third album? Entirely possible...We've just secured an interview with controversial director Kevin Smith. Look...
...that seem to have fewer guns and more thought has been terrifically surprising. Fight Club, in particular, has gripped preview audiences with its maze of guy angst. (Since when have guys had angst? Girls patented angst.) The story of a charismatic anarchist (Brad Pitt) who starts up a group of men who beat the crap out of each other for fun, drawing in yuppie men chucking their grey flannel suits for a life of chaos. Other yuppie violence movies have stirred the male psyche recently - American Psycho and American Beauty just to name two. These movies all explore the deeper...
...that dares not speak its name. Edward Norton's character in Fight Club is so ashamed of the fact that he is bored with the Gap(tm)-bland banality of his successful life he is forced to pretend that his affliction is something completely different. Hence his addiction to group therapy sessions, where he can pretend that his unhappiness springs from testicular cancer or OCD rather than from the cookie-cutter pointlessness of his life. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice little nuclear family, she likes martinis...