Word: hipster
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While the rigid 19th century dress codes have faded into the cracks of Harvard Hall, the pressure to value appearance pervades the attitudes and closets of today’s male. But not every Harvard man spends his time getting highlights or seeking the perfect pomade. Some cultivate a hipster chic, others just throw on their sweats. The trend of male vanity affects a noticeable crowd, and seems to have filtered down from the high-rise office buildings and underground nightclubs of New York and London...
Actually, it's the biggest U.S. project of Rem Koolhaas, the influential Dutch architect-thinker and hipster-polemicist. "For me it's a building that accommodates both stability and instability," he says. "The things you can predict and the things you can't." What he means is that the library is designed to accommodate whatever new technologies and purposes it may have to serve in the future. And Koolhaas is somebody who understands all too well the power of things you can't predict. The library, which opens officially next month, is not just a new symbol for the city...
...regular members at the last count, when they rose from the forests of Canada to total relevance. They broke onto the scene with their enormously popular and critically acclaimed 2002 album You Forgot It In People, an album that was hyped to such an extent (notably by rising hipster gatekeeper website Pitchforkmedia.com) that it couldn’t help but fail to live up to expectations...
...among Harvard libraries. The guards at Houghton all but frisk you when you emerge from viewing its rare books, Widener is haunted by scowling academes, Lamont is crowded with a Boschian assortment of your drowsing or deadline-crazed classmates—but Hilles remains a place apart, the ex-hipster aunt whom you seek out at Thanksgiving because you know she alone will refrain from asking you about how school is going and exactly what you plan to do after graduation, anyhow...
Fought either in an arena or a steel cage, these battles inevitably draw comparisons to World Wrestling Entertainment, as both are staged fights between grown men. But it is the undercurrent of self-parody that gives these fights their hipster gravitas against the Rock et al. When Kung-Fu Chicken Noodle, a giant chicken noodle can with arms, legs and a steak knife, goes up against Los Plantanos, the heroic Spanish banana twins, the pretense of seriousness is thin...