Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been cheering the victory of a black lawyer over the system, or perhaps they were cheering the system itself, since the jury had made it work for them. Even if the division displayed was real, it might not necessarily be as deep as was being said. Contrary to pop psychology, people usually behave least, not most, like themselves in moments of high excitement, and they are truer to their feelings in repose...
...this added material comes off as hackneyed as it sounds. But to give Joffe what little credit is due, a discernable logic underpins this pop-up-book montage of colonial history. He reads The Scarlet Letter as a dialogue between witches and Indians on the one hand and the Puritan colonialists on the other, between the untouched wilderness and the civilized world between our most authentic impulses and social norms. Predictably enough, he poses the question, "Who is really more civilized...
Whether this apocalypse has been dragging on all this time is unclear. You'll just have to ask Davis. "Greetings" reflects on life in the nineties through a mixture of comic monologues on politics and pop culture and short sketches about Davis' miserable love life. Just how the apocalypse, Thoreau and Davis' ex-'s all hang together never becomes clear but the jumble of thoughts does have a loose coherence. At least we know that Davis says we're in the midst of this apocalypse right now. Too many people meander through life with bad attitudes, and instead they should...
Happily, Hornby does not rely on pop-cultural allusion to limn his characters' inner lives, but uses it instead to create a rich, wry backdrop for them. His hero is Rob Fleming, an aging, contemplative slacker who owns a London record shop and enjoys rattling off lists of his top five favorite Elvis Costello songs or episodes of Cheers. When Rob's friends suggest that he should test women with a questionnaire about their favorite artists and musicians, Rob jokes that it is "intended to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might at a later date...
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, WAS HOMOGENEOUS AND COMPLACENT, among the whitest of cities in the country. No longer: beginning in the late 1970s, local churches began sponsoring displaced refugees from the wars in Southeast Asia, allowing them to settle in Wausau. As a result, the town (pop. 38,000) is now 15% Hmong, a people native to the mountains of Indochina who speak a language that until the 1950s had no written form...