Word: realest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pandering to hipness but its willingness to skewer social haves and have-nots and its satiric, Heathers-ish flourishes (the popular girls, e.g., hang out in a velvety school powder room called "the Novak," as in Kim). Freaks, a sweet and funny character study, is probably the "realest" of the bunch and the best fall drama aimed at any demographic. But it is two decades removed from the way teens live now, with good reason: "We couldn't recreate high school today," creator Paul Feig cheerfully concedes. "All the slang would be 10 years...
...classics of this subgenre (It Happened One Night, The Philadelphia Story), it was the man (Clark Gable, Cary Grant) who caused the ruckus. But different tropes for different folks. And different times. It is theoretically O.K. to place a woman in the terminator role. And Roberts, that realest of nice girls, much of the time makes us believe that her insanity is temporary...
...This is a rally far beyond my expectations of success," said co-organizer Philip R. Munger '95. "This is the realest thing I've seen at Harvard in a long time...