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...having it," he says. So why is Chasing Amy raunchy in the extreme, crudely anticlerical and sexually flamboyant ("Archie was the bitch, and Jughead was the butch," insists one character)? Only a boomer fixated on the Brady Bunch would find it puzzling. "I'm a jaded optimist looking behind the doors of small-town America," says Smith. "My generation believes we can do almost anything. My characters are free: no social mores keep them in check." View Askew's Website invites fans for a chat: "Feel the power of communication, as you can actually interact with the losers...
...energies of cultural periods don't last forever. The Italian Renaissance came to an end--not suddenly, like a snapping rope, but gradually, through fraying, mutation, replacement. And one would need to be an extreme optimist--some would say, a willfully blind one as well--to think that the big energies of American Modernism are still with us. Which is not to say that there are not plenty of gifted and interesting visual artists in America, doing valuable work at the end of the 20th century. But cultures do decay and run out of steam; and the visual culture...
Despite Beijing's denouncement of his disloyalty to the Chinese people, Lee maintained that he is an optimist and a friend of China...
...while Edley said he is an optimist at heart, he believes that the path toward integration faces many roadblocks...
...optimist, by contrast, says that the Crimson simply does not care that much about inter-conference play. It is the Ivy League that really matters, and in the Ancient Eight the Crimson...