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...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 commit random acts of senseless whoopass, the corporate oppressor gets his well-deserved comeuppance only after a violent "brawl"-even soap is not the innocuous cleansing agent...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: hush, yuppies: would you like some whine with your cheese? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...still have some of our biggest games left," Ripmaster said. "Princeton is just awesome and Dartmouth has been having a rough season starting out, so their whole season will be trying to beat...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Soccer Bloodies Big Red, 5-0 | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

...WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Expect the raunchy and entertaining-this opera will open with Jason singing about his inability to stand after a rough night of sex with Medea. You can look forward to authentic costumes and staging (Pierce is an expert on Baroque dance) hardly seen since in the last four centuries...

Author: By Ben A. Cowan, Angela Marek, Diana R. Movius, and Cara New, S | Title: Fall Theater Preview: October | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...rough day but I just tried to get that out of my head," Shakir said. "I was happy when Coach let me come up in that situation with the bases loaded and everybody on the team had confidence in me. This was the greatest moment of my career in sports...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IVY REPEAT FOR BASEBALL | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...group attempting to write a widely accepted set of standards faces a rough task. Standards must be rigorous enough to satisfy pressure groups, yet realistic enough for corporations to find them affordable and achievable. Moreover, the canons are proliferating, and will soon begin to clash with one another. The European Federation of Accountants and Auditors in Brussels, for example, is drafting a set of environmental standards that are likely to differ from those of CERES. "We need a unified, comparable system, because it's not helpful if there are 25 different standards" in competition with one another, says Sir Geoffrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Called To Account | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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