Word: neuroticisms
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At this point Dean Kamen IS used to being called naive. "I'm getting neurotic about people overhyping things," he says, "so let me tell you what it doesn't do." Kamen's caution is understandable. He invented the overpublicized, under-performing superscooter known as the Segway--and was responsible...
Yes, it was impersonal. He was an equal-opportunity insulter, especially of himself, about whose passions and politics he revealed nothing (until--his one gaffe--he took sides in the Vietnam conflict). It was all very Waspy and Middle American, but it perfectly suited a great age of denial. Then...
Radiohead got two albums out of the sessions--Kid A and the equally dystopian Amnesiac, but when the group reconvened to discuss plans for Hail to the Thief in early 2002, it was decided that the creative process had to change. The other members of Radiohead--Selway, guitarists Ed O...
In last year's improbably hilarious best seller Running with Scissors, Burroughs told the story of his decidedly unconventional adolescence: when he was 13, his wildly neurotic mother effectively gave him away to her psychiatrist, who raised him in a ramshackle house with a menagerie of patients. Dry is the...
Schlosser isn't attacking the pot industry here; he's going after the institutional hypocrisies that force it underground while leaving far more damaging practices, like the abuse of migrant workers, to fester openly. What ties Reefer Madness together is Schlosser's passionate belief that America is deeply neurotic, a...