Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard student hangs an "Austin Powers" poster on his wall. Boldly assuming that the Harvard student's a pretty smart guy and "Austin Powers" a pretty stupid movie, one must ask why the student would choose to decorate his room in this manner. A genuine and deep admiration of the film, perhaps? A way of appropriating a little of the movie's popularity for his own? A way of holding onto a receding childhood through childishness...
...some of the sophistication irony presumes to an otherwise worthless pop culture artifact. This act, this connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away from the graveness of life, but a poignant attempt to raise something up out of the ruins...
...need a stock of, say, 20 people who would go to bat for you, so that you're not the only person who shows up to poster in the Yard," Stewart says...
Underneath the poster blitz, if anyone bothered to read our literature, this BGLTSA works on wonderfully substantive programming that includes volunteer work at local high schools and gay rights organizations, fighting harassment in first-year dorms, the renewal of a long-dead support group on coming out, the promotion of queer studies, phat dances, art shows and speaking events. We are more than silly sensationalists, silly, masturbatory fags and dykes out to put our egos and personal pathologies on display. Idealistic, perhaps, in our desire to screw the world, but alive, angry and proud...
...explode in your face like a computer at midnight on New Year's Day 2000. Aggression seems truly to be the key to defusing the ticking time-bomb of yuppie angst. This is obvious in Fight Club: the entire movie is centered around the premise that yuppie poster boy Edward Norton finds escape from his micromanaged world only when he is pounding someone else to a pulp with his bare hands. Everything is frenetic, violent, and rough-cut in retaliation against the stuffy conformity of yuppie existence: in this angst-ridden world, movies have violent spurts of hardcore pornography, people...