Word: hipster
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Burroughs delivers cheerless homilies with his usual gimlet-eyed glee: "You ever see a dog roll in carrion? Well now, a city boy see that and he might get tempted to join the dog . . ." The old hipster even indulges in a bit of moralizing, making a somewhat heavy-handed connection between the magic bullets and the temptation of drugs...
...Parker. Together, and with the collaboration of a tight core of players like Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke and a few others, Dizzy and Bird drove jazz back into itself, straight through its heart and out again, sounding brand-new. Parker -- the racked jazz saint and junkie genius -- fit the hipster stereotype more than his good-timing, glad-handing buddy. But in matters of chops and talent, Gillespie played a supporting role...
...unfilmable Naked Lunch." Even this movie's producer called William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel that, and he was right. A gallimaufry of hallucinations, literary gossip and medical info, Burroughs' confession of a hipster junkie is its own X-rated movie, so vivid is its evocation of a mind gone bad, a soul shriveled. "Gentle reader," he writes, "the ugliness of that spectacle buggers description." Which Burroughs of course describes, in language both raw and heroically ironic. The novel is a detective story in which the private eye is desperate to forget, not learn, life's mysteries; or maybe...
...center of a circle of bright, successful friends -- a post- Beatles hipster Algonquin Table that cellularly convenes to muse and amuse. She survives the mottled curse of fame by fostering deep, intimate friendships. Her coterie ranges from her ex's 18-year-old son to a 71-year-old psychiatrist and includes director Penny Marshall, comic philosopher Albert Brooks, actor Richard Dreyfuss, musicians Don Henley and J.D. Souther, and many more...
...else's music, clothes and styles, leaving little room for their own imaginations. Mini-revivals in platform shoes, ripped jeans and urban-cowboy chic all coincide with J. Crew prep, Gumby haircuts and teased-out suburban perms. What young adults have managed to come up with is either nuevo hipster or ultra-nerd, but almost always a bland imitation of the past. "They don't even seem to know how to dress," says sociologist Hirsch, "and they're almost unschooled in how to look in different settings...