Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dubbed by NME as worse than Metallica in a bad mood, Hardknox and their self-titled debut album will probably prove to be the cutest music-induced headache you'll be privileged enough to dance to this fall. Generating pieces in a small bedroom studio, Hardknox puts together an energetic album that entertains and moves with raging rhythms, raps, grooves and tunes whose careful and expert blending make them cutting-edge but still strangely familiar. While the band (Lindy Layton and Steve P.) is determined to market its album and image as bad-ass and in-your-face...
...staying with the aforementioned randomness theme, the two most accomplished actors of the crew, Ted Danson and Martin Short, appear briefly in quirky antagonistic roles; Danson as the self-centered, insensitive Jeremy Brockett and Short as attorney Lional Dillard, who is at the forefront of opposition to Doctor Mumford's questionable practice. On a more cheerful note, Short and Danson, in each of their shining five-minute cameos, provide glimpses of some much-needed comic relief...
...fact, reported by The Crimson, that the Cambridge public school system is now desperately scrambling to overhaul its educational programs in an effort to halt the exodus of students to private schools (News, Sept. 29). The situation in Cambridge nicely illustrates a bit of reasoning that might seem self-evident, if not for its potential ramifications--namely, that public schools are forced to improve when they find themselves competing with private schools for enrollment. The irony is that this is, of course, the crucial argument in favor of school vouchers...
...Apparently because we're all too ironic or falsely spiritual to believe in anything as simple and real as the value of living on a hillside farm in West Virginia, we lack a politics that functions as a repository of our hopes and dreams." Even to a reader less self-consciously worldly and less corrosively bitter than Hodge, Purdy's tone and substance--the fact that this book is about Jedediah Purdy, and that any power in the book springs from his unshakeable convictions--may seem narcissistic; and his tendency towards moralistic aphorisms, towards a Thoreauvian epigrammatic style, seems...
...Common Things is remarkable for, among other things, its fidelity to the tradition of American environmentalist writing in particular. Since its beginnings, American writing has been infused with the conviction that the personal must somehow stand for the nation. It is characteristic of what has been called the American Self that the particular events of the individual life are understood to somehow trend towards universality...