Word: slackerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Levi's Wide-Leg jeans "Elevator Fantasy" If only those slacker flicks could capture Gen-X commitment fears with the precision and punch of this 60-sec. spot. Here, guy eyes girl in an elevator, and instantly their imaginations run wild toward dream dates, love dens and then, oh no!--a screaming newborn? When the doors open, lust shuts down...
...script, as Holofcener and her strong cast give a flowing, excellent treatment of material that in other hands might turn to life-in-the-nineties mush for the brain. You won't find here a goofy, artificial circle of friends steeped in pop-culture, who spout nihilistic aphorisms or slacker meditations on life. Laura and Frank get angry, make up, and get angry again over petty things: it is awkward, it doesn't make sense, and, usually, it stays that way, thanks to Holofcener's careful...
...Village is the soap most self-consciously targeted to the Net's alternative-culture sensibility. Its heroine is Eve, a writer whose diary relates the goings-on of her barhopping social circle: Daphne, a struggling actress; Joe, a cartoonist who has a thing for Eve; and Mick, the resident slacker, the object of Eve's desire because "he is from the heartland; he's pretty honest; and he likes board games...
...SLACKER EPIC? SOUNDS LIKE AN oxymoron. Usually movies about the young and well rested feature no more than a padful of twenty-somethings making disaffected comments about the life that is passing them by. In Beautiful Girls, however, doping off is portrayed as the great no-growth industry of a small New England town buried in snow and youthful regrets. And because its creators bring to the topic of fecklessness its opposite qualities--ambition, energy, intelligence--they transform it into something interesting...
...resigned over accusations that he had made racial slurs in a meeting with members of the comedy group the State--Mad TV has taken bigger risks tackling controversial racial issues. In a sketch that took a sharp knife to the culture of victimhood, Bryan Callen portrayed a slacker who felt beaten up by the world because he was one-eighth black. Callen, as white as Matthew Perry, unleashed a rabid tirade about the injustices he suffered because of his "appearance." More irreverent still was a send-up of Mad About You titled Mad About Jew, which imagined Louis Farrakhan married...