Word: guyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bombing campaign has become melodrama, Serbian TV and a crackdown on dissent have helped ensure that NATO is the bad guy. A series of new government decrees have piled even more repression on top of the already draconian media laws passed last fall. Says a Belgrade lawyer: "They can now put people away for up to two months without even notifying anybody from the judiciary system. Law doesn't live here anymore...
...wild valuations will continue to be gospel in the Net economy. "David is so confident and so smart," says Bill Martin, 21, a University of Virginia dropout and one of the founders of Raging Bull, a financial Web community half-owned by CMGI. "But he's a guts guy too. When we brought him our idea, he listened, took a conference call and then came back in the room and put 2 million bucks into the company. I called the dean the next day and told her I wasn't coming back to school...
...teacher, identified by police only as Peggy, made it into the library a few steps ahead of the killers. First she called the police. Then, over the phone, she could be overheard desperately trying to warn the kids. "There's a guy with a gun!" she yelled, bleeding. "Kids, under the table! Kids, stay on the floor! Oh, God. Oh, God--kids, just stay down!" At first, Craig Scott thought it was all a prank, maybe the teacher was in on it. But the noise was real, and the fear was real, and he ducked under a table with...
Fifty years ago, movies were homogenous, meant to appeal to the whole family. Now pop culture has been Balkanized; it is full of niches, with different groups watching and playing their own things. And big movies, the ones that grab $20 million on their first weekend, are guy stuff. Young males consume violent movies, in part, for the same reason they groove to outlaw music: because their parents can't understand it--or stand it. To kids, an R rating for violence is like the Parental Advisory on CDs: a Good Housebreaking Seal of Approval...
Sometimes you think critics across the board have loved The Dream Life of Angels because it would be such a bummer for director Erick Zonca, a really nice, hardworking guy, if they didn't. The eminently decent Zonca has said that he'd wanted to make a big-screen feature since age 14, but he never felt he had the "cultural background" or the know-how. Cultural background?? How could anyone pan this guy? If only more directors had such tender misgivings...