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...youth is happy to indulge passionately and wholeheartedly—as long as they can do so with a grain of salt. We laugh about our poor choices, triumphantly exulting in our drunken mistakes and guilty pleasures. We like the political commentary of “South Park?? and “Chappelle’s Show,” but we really watch them for the ridiculous and dirty humor that follows. We like our news bundled up with jokes and regurgitated back to us by sardonic pop-culture pundits. We can fall in love...
...Korean wave” of pop culture in East Asia. The panel offered cross-disciplinary perspectives on the Hallyu phenomenon. The standing room only event featured Korean song writer and music manager Jin-Young Park and actress and television personality Jung-Sook Park??both famous in their fields. Several members of the panel said the flood of movies, music, and television programs is an important force in breaking down national barriers in East Asia. Jung-Sook Park described Hallyu as an “organic power,” with the potential to reduce cultural tensions across East...
...wonder after reading “Arlington Park?? whether the author, Rachel Cusk, is a penetrating analyst of human psychology—or just an embittered feminist.Whichever category Cusk falls into, her newest novel is certainly perceptive. It is a surprisingly philosophical book in which everyday characters in an everyday setting hint at being deeply symbolic—though it’s difficult to discern what they’re supposed to symbolize.“Arlington Park?? follows the lives of five young British housewives through the course of one rainy day and culminates...
...accurate canvas of human diversity in any particular place except the Ivy League campus itself, the student body is more an unwieldy chimera manufactured to the specifications of Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” attraction. (Which, incidentally, the theme park??s planners have tellingly relegated to an area of the park called “Fantasy Land...
Seoul resident Ohkyung Kwon ’07 says that Keum and Won Hee Park??s books have also been taken with a grain of salt by at least some of the Korean reading public...