Word: koole
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...spite of Mondovino’s esoteric and reputedly snobbish subject matter, even an audience who can’t tell Chianti from Kool-Aid can follow this portrait of an ancient, often bizarre international subculture. Like its distant cousin in fiction, Oscar contender Sideways, the film holds up for its entire 135 minutes by tempering a little wine geekery with far more interesting (and frequently unflattering) character studies...
...Anderson said students had drained $80 worth of Kool...
...figure severance. Have a few hours to kill before the plastics panel? Come over and check out my toys: speakeasies blaring old-time jazz; cabarets straight out of Bob Fosse's filmography; and the local favorite, the Hurricane, a fruit cocktail that masks the rum you're downing like Kool...
...portrait of the libidinal college youth of today wouldn’t be so important if it was not Wolfe writing—with all the gravitas and supposed cultural clarity he brings to the page. Famous for the New Journalism style he virtually pioneered in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and perfected in The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe is the best-known novelist of the intricacies of the American cultural scene...
...read Charlotte Simmons without picking nits. There was a time when Wolfe was a pioneer, reporting back to straight America from the exotic island of radical youth culture in books like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, but nowadays American culture and youth culture are basically the same thing, and it's Wolfe who looks a little behind the times. He leans heavily on catchphrases from such movies as Swingers ("You're money, baby") to give his dialogue a contemporary vibe. There are missteps: What self- respecting black hoopster would...