Word: pulp
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...kids of this inner-city institute, good manners are medieval, and not in the Pulp Fiction way. And Pierre is nothing if not an anachronism. For a start, the movies haven't dabbled in the image of the suave, kindly Frenchman since Charles Boyer and Louis Jourdan hung up their spats. (For a startle: Malaga's own Antonio as the real-life Pierre? He explains, lamely but gamely, that his mother was Spanish, and that he speaks five languages, "all with a Spanish accent." Anyway, he has the savoir-faire, or unforced machismo, to bring...
...Clan hint at this dilemma when they ask nostalgically, “Can It Be All So Simple”, eventually breaking down “fly clichés” and easy street/smart dichotomies in favor of an epic, all-American mythos that draws on everything from pulp comic books and cheap kung-fu movies. Any static visual display of artifacts and commentary will be hard-pressed to uncover the symbolic web of even one Wu-Tang album, let alone the genre as a whole. While it may display some truly fly chains...
...teaching fellow] give a lecture in class on graffiti. He himself had been a graffiti writer…and I didn’t have a sense that he was self-consciously slumming or anything like that.”Menand had his students watch “Pulp Fiction,” and he was pleased with the results. “I thought we had a good serious discussion about what it meant,” he says.One of Connor’s students, Jeremy Landau ’08, similarly commented on the genuine academic stimulation...
From the opening strains of “Pump It” which is built on a sample from “Miserlou” (you know it as the theme music from “Pulp Fiction”), through the singles “Don’t Phunk With My Heart” and “My Humps,” their latest outing “Monkey Business” is compulsively danceable. Even if you don’t like it, you’ll move...
...Therein, Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore, “The Hours”) walks into a hospital and says that her car has been car jacked in the local projects. And her son was inside. Or so she tells Detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson, “Pulp Fiction”) the bad-ass police officer, whose beat includes that project...