Word: slackerly
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...Prozac Nation's press packet we encounter the following description of the author: "Witty, intelligent, and hip (nose ring, tatoo [sic]), Elizabeth Wurtzel is definitely not a Gen-X slacker." Beyond the silly assertion of nose rings and tattoos as indexes of hipness, this statement reveals what is meant as the book's selling point: that it's not just losers without jobs who are depressed, that the world is such a tough place that it would depress anyone, even a cool Harvard student. Hey, I buy it. I've been depressed too, and with many of the same symptoms...
...Brattle Theatre serves up a Sunday Mike Nichols duo, "The Graduate" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" along with Wednesday's "Slacker" rival, "Dazed and Confused...
...wonderful thing about the Brattle is that two nights later the tone is completely different. One of Wednesday night's selection's, "Dazed and Confused" became an instant hit when it arrived at cinemas last year. By the same director as the documentary, "Slacker," these films share the same setting, Austin, Texas...
...nation's most prestigious -- has been peppering its student transcripts with As and Bs (93% of all grades awarded) and letting scholars bail out of uncongenial courses up to the very day of final exams with no questions asked. But last week the school turned its back on slacker-friendly grading and reinstated a failing NP (Not Passed) grade for 1995-96. How do other schools measure...
...concept of Generation X was a bonanza for pop social scientists and lazy "introspective" editorial writers, you thought too soon. Douglas Coupland's much ballyhood and much misinterpreted miscategorization now has its very own beverage. It is called, in a bit of understatement worthy of the most ardent slacker, "OK" Cola...