Word: po
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suede Mary Janes with the red, green, yellow and purple images of ALL FOUR Teletubbies emblazoned on the toe. No! Their images run before my eyes... Every day there's a Teletubby something; last week it was a keychain-sized Tinky Winky; the week before, a larger-than-life Po; last month, a lunchbox with the four little demons holding hands, united in song. The little girl is obsessed, and I can't get away. You think I'm overreacting? Have you ever had a Teletubby in your belly...
...vacationing New Yorkers Jerry Koenig and Mary Geissman jaunted in their posh gray sedan from the 400-year-old stone house overlooking the narrow paths of medieval Padua, Italy, to the modern ski condo in Asiago, Italy, they had time to reflect on how breathtaking the vineyard-dotted Po Valley is...and how the house, the condo and the car had cost them not a cent. All three came in exchange for use of their two-bedroom apartment in New York City...
...Read Su Tung-po poem New Year's Eve: Spending the Night Outside Chang-chou City (1073). "No one here speaks my dialect: I long for home... I thank the flickering torch that doesn't refuse/ to keep me company on a lonely boat through the night...
...walk through the IKEA catalog; the moment when movie projectionist Tyler Durden, discussing the "change filmstrip" blip that appears on movie screens, points to the one on the screen of the movie he is in; and a final revelation about the relationship between Durden and the narrator. Unfortunately, these po-mo asides don't detract from the fact that one man's yuppie angst has spawned an entire world where violence is not the answer (because there are no questions to answer) but the only thing to do. Granted, Marla and Jack end the movie silhouetted hand-in-hand like...
...walk through the IKEA catalog; the moment when movie projectionist Tyler Durden, discussing the "change filmstrip" blip that appears on movie screens, points to the one on the screen of the movie he is in; and a final revelation about the relationship between Durden and the narrator. Unfortunately, these po-mo asides don't detract from the fact that one man's yuppie angst has spawned an entire world where violence is not the answer (because there are no questions to answer) but the only thing to do. Granted, Marla and Jack end the movie silhouetted hand-in-hand like...