Word: hazing
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...inhaled, told an MTV audience that he wishes he could have done so. The President's sneaking snickering line (a kid still putting one over on his parents) suggested the boomers' ambivalence about pot and a kind of time-warping refusal to see it or themselves honestly. A haze of self-cherishing nostalgia confuses them. They want to be their child's friend; they do not wish to be uncool. They may still smoke sometimes and hide it from their kids, as they once hid it from their parents--an amazingly demeaning drama of arrested development...
...liking and I spent a good deal of time consoling him. He felt stupid, to put it quite plainly. He told me he thought his GPA was mediocre and that he was destined for a life unadorned by the kind of accomplishment we see glittering in the ubiquitous haze of brilliance that surrounds...
...Contemporary Civilization--at Columbia University, he takes them again, traveling with students several decades younger the long road from Homer to Woolf and Socrates to Nietzsche. Denby finds the so-called--and currently much maligned--great books more exhilarating the second time around: "They scrape away the media haze of second-handedness." The overarching impression left by his account is that education may be wasted on the young...
...Thursday morning the early light is wrapped in haze, the grass is wet, the half-risen sun casts great splotches of shadows on the front lawns. It is going to be a scorcher. The traffic, bemoaned by the woman on Atlantic Avenue, redoubles by the hour. Official cars flash red and white headlights and roll through...
Back on the movie screen, some of the big names besides Bertolucci were disappointing their fans. Robert Altman's Kansas City, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson, shrouds the aimless bustle of its plot--kidnapping, murder and political maneuvering set against a 1934 jazz milieu--in an opium haze of dramatic anomie. Stephen Frears' The Van, third in the series that includes The Commitments and The Snapper, is a noisy mess, with shouting in lieu of wit and brawls stunt-doubling for character conflict. But this pub/pug violence was mild next to the atrocities in David Cronenberg's Crash...