Word: nesses
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...turned out, all that cusp-ness provided a useful foretaste of the 90s and early 00s, which have been in so many ways (technologically, economically, culturally) a time of extreme flux. At an impressionable age we became accustomed to being both one thing and its seeming opposite (analog and digital, bohemian and bourgeois, old and youngish), which was—I think—a good thing...
...that’s the future, and while the future has come to California, it hasn’t yet made it to Harvard. The recent defense of self-segregation at Harvard has centered on minority-ness. The argument is either 1) I didn’t have any (fill in the blank) friends back home, so I want to get to know other people like me now, or 2) As a minority on this campus I feel more comfortable around others of similar backgrounds...
...name to Cheyenne, because a Western friend told her the name fits someone mature, mysterious and chic. And Fifi wants to be all three. An old boyfriend gave her the name "Fifi." But that was back when she wasn't fully formed, when she hadn't developed the "Cheyenne-ness" of her character...
...parapara. Concentration puckering Razumi's pixie-shaped face into a frown, she tries to keep time with the fast-paced beats at Isn't It? "I practice every day and make sure to keep up with all the new releases as they come out," she says, her otaku-ness coming across more brightly than the florescent green of her zip-up sweater...
...hair cut in a close-cropped Caesar?and coasts through yet another hour of live before-a-studio-audience television trash. Yet, despite his apparent indifference, he carries the show, not through arch commentary or the Japanese equivalent of Cowardesque wit, but by sheer force of his Beat-ness...