Word: posterity
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Written simply in black pen on white paper, one poster read "Henry Northington: beheaded, severed head left on a footbridge in a public park...
...Faludi, she warned against such finger pointing. "We're all complicit in a culture that disfigures people. Most of us participate as consumers," she said. "The blame game is too easy. People should deal with a more complex dynamic than 'Who are we going to put on a wanted poster?'" Wanted posters sound good and manly...
Pegasite intensity spikes at college-application time. The Zagers' dining room has been turned into a college war room, draped from top to bottom with brochures from schools like Syracuse University and the University of Colorado at Boulder and a poster-size chart drawn by Anne that lists 14 schools broken down into 22 categories such as class size and distance from home. Nearby sits a CD-ROM SAT study aid, Emergency Prep...
...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...