Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...objectives of the plan had been defeated by itself, in a sense," Parsons says. "The notion was to bring all these humanities departments and centers together in one location. It turned out that there simply wasn't enough space to do justice to the needs of all these different groups...
other germs are making a mockery of the notion that humans...
Ginsberg credits the Beat writer Herbert Huncke with transmitting the notion in the late 1940s through autobiographical reminiscences, later anthologized as The Evening Sun Turned Crimson. In one story the teenage Huncke watched the police bust a hermaphrodite junkie in a seedy hotel. "The tolerance of the kid was juxtaposed with the brutality of the cops," says Ginsberg. "The sympathetic observer, Huncke, became an exemplary illustration of what was hip." Huncke's own take on the idea is a bit darker. "It meant," he recalls, "a certain awareness of everything most people were frightened of speaking of, or of admitting...
...reduced to a fashion statement. The ethos of punk, like that of the Beats and the hippies, would remain lodged in memory as an exemplary refusal, an inspiration to grunge and rap in later years. But its initial force was diverted quickly enough into the more market-friendly notion of new wave: here came the dance-beat torching of Blondie instead of the primal screeching of the Sex Pistols, red sneakers instead of the safety pin through the cheek. The ground was well prepared for the appearance of MTV in 1981, which ushered in the age of video rock stars...
...performer and fashion watcher Sandra Bernhard, "there's not much more designers can do.") Even the growth of multiculturalism can make hip more difficult. It's harder to feel genuinely alienated at a time when almost everyone can claim membership in some ethnic or sexual subnation, leaving the fearsome notion of an all-powerful mainstream to shrivel accordingly. All this could be called the Lollapalooza conundrum, in honor of the alternative rock tour and its organizers, who are always wondering what will make the thing alternative in a culture that constantly muddies the question. As Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell recently...