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Genetics and the Three Me's Generation. In the future, sinister corporate hucksters will cheat us out of our lives and our very identities as "clone" replaces the hopelessly insufficient "poser" as an epithet. The streets will run with clones and genius oligarchy of the rich will prevail. Barring that, people will balk at, yet secretly desire, the ability to control serendipitous mediocrity or excellence in their offspring. Also in the future: it will somehow be profitable and useful to graft our deepest mortal enemy's genes onto human ones, so as to further the self-destruction of the human...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fear of Genetics Meets Cellophane and Custard | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...room listening to opera and talking about art auctions, though it was unclear to both of us whether we were just wasting our time. He'd tell me about great wines, and I'd listen because I didn't know he was a poser, and I didn't know that's what I was trying...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: If You're Here, You May Be There Already | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

Here's my brief Ode to Adam, my across-the-hallconfidant and the only person I know willing toplay Chinese checkers with me anytime, anyplace.Always blunt and always thinking, Adam waseverything me the poser thought was uncool buteverything me the me really loved...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: If You're Here, You May Be There Already | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...established at least one incontravertible fact: the Simpsons did quite a bit of shopping. And they did it at Bloomingdale's. A second representative of the upscale department store was called to the stand today. Continuing the prosecution's line of footwear questioning, former Bloomingdale's shoe salesman Samuel Poser said that although he remembered selling O.J. size 12 shoes on several occasions, he couldn't remember if they were the Italian Bruno Magli shoes that prosecutors say left bloody prints at the crime scene. Earlier in the trial, a Bloomingdale's buyer testified that the bloody glove found outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIMPSON LEAVING NO SHOE UNTURNED | 6/20/1995 | See Source »

...Army doctor, is the only person with the expertise, the guts and, dammit, the nobility to solve this apocalyptic poser. Screenwriters Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool have given him a requisition brainy-dishy ex-wife (Rene Russo), an agitated boss (Morgan Freeman), a helpful colleague (Kevin Spacey, who is very good) and plucky Major Salt to steer Sam through an unlikely airplane battle at the climax. But in movies like this, a man must stand alone. It's a mild hoot to watch Certified Great Actor Hoffman play an action hero. Note the Clint-like glint in his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS VIRUS ISN'T CATCHING | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

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