Word: namelessness
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...those looking for a dark side to the nameless generation, poor Beavis and Butthead are the perfect bogeymen. They represent our youthful contingent--more irreverent and more disturbing than their adult for-bears. These little nihilists are Generation X with an attitude, flaunting every imaginable form of repulsive behavior, and then some. They insult their elders. They torture small animals. They have poor personal hygiene. They think everything "sucks." The fact that we love it must be proof of our depravity...
...trouble is that this nameless Everydog doesn't talk, or even have many discernible expressions. That puts most of the comic burden on the characters around him, who are a dull lot. Mom and Dad (voiced by Molly Cheek and Martin Mull) have plain-vanilla marital spats, and the two kids are boring Bart-and- Lisa wannabes. The plots are thin (Family Dog goes to the zoo or befriends a homeless woman), and the dialogue, by sitcom veteran Dennis Klein (Buffalo Bill), is more garrulous than witty: "That was stealing, and stealing is bad . . . Ipso facto, Fido...
...months ago he left his wife and child in Fujian Province, where fellow villagers paid $20,000 to nameless smugglers to transport him to America. The plan was for him to make a fortune for all of his investors. Instead, once he arrived in New York, the snakeheads disappeared and he was left to fend for himself. He has no documents to certify his stay here. He lives in a one-room basement apartment with five other men, sleeping on three-tiered bunk beds. Anyone who can't pay the $100 rent each month is kicked out. He says...
Inside Harvard University, there is a corporation within a corporation--nameless yet not faceless, a big spender yet exceedingly profitable...
Holly Golightly and her nameless cat inhabit a barely furnished apartment in a Manhattan brownstone. Golightly peeks out from behind her door one morning to find that she has a new downstairs neighbor. Even wearing a wrinkled tuxedo shirt, a pastel blue sleeping mask pushed up on her forehead and purple-tassled earplugs in her ears, Hepburn conjures an almost unearthly elegance onscreen...