Word: nothingism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Success brought Reznor, now 34, his own label, Nothing Records, and his own studio, built in an old funeral home near his mansion in New Orleans. Music writers called him rock's savior, while awestruck fans--Goths, punks, heavy-metal heads and hard-core rockers alike--showered him with handwritten...
Their influence, though, transcends ratings. thirtysomething's young professionals sitting around chatting about nothing--it must be said--paved the way for successors as varied as Seinfeld, Friends and Wasteland, which debuts on ABC on Oct 7. And echoes of My So-Called Life, this decade's ur-teen drama...
Next to Fig Newtons, there's nothing I like better than a good longitudinal study. I especially enjoy ones with fancy titles that use lots of charts and graphs to tell us what we suspected all along. The latest, entitled "The Nature and Predictors of the Trajectory of Change in...
One of the many rewards of reading Chang-rae Lee's new novel, A Gesture Life (Riverhead Books; 288 pages; $23.95), is its reticence, a lost virtue at a time when fictional characters (to say nothing of strangers on airplanes) share intimacies as routinely as weather reports.
Taking risks focuses the mind. Such activities are bracing, to say the least, whether you are a BASE jumper, a surgeon performing a quadruple-bypass operation or an actor executing a sword fight onstage while spouting Shakespeare. Most of us don't have work that is this invigorating. Engaging in...