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...made indie films Slacker and Dazed and Confused. This is so mainstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Richard Linklater | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...School of Rock, Jack Black gets kicked out of his band and becomes a substitute teacher. Is he a slacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Richard Linklater | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...Sure. A slacker is somebody who's passionate but not fitting into the workaday world, the guy you judge and say, That's a loser. But everybody has something to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Richard Linklater | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...cause of all this carnage is gaijin hubris?the belief, embraced by foolish foreigners, that one can get away with anything in Japan. Jessica Romano, a blond-bombshell nightclub hostess from Chicago, and Chris Ryan, a Floridian slacker and small-time drug pusher, have a particularly bad case. And who can blame them? Jessica spends her nights tending to infantile businessmen at a posh, Osaka club. Chris, a nobody back home, finds himself treated in Japan "like he was Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt"?after two months he has already bedded a dozen girls. So when Jessica hatches a scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bedeviled | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...referring to Adams’ pessimistic observation that Harvard “taught little, and that little ill.” Instead, I have to wonder if this ethic of procrastination will be easy to abandon as we grow older. Will our generation of Harvardians retain its slacker ways and persist in its procrastinatory habits? Will little Johnny’s birthday party be organized at the last minute for lack of other motivating interest? Will office presentations be thrown together at lunch and winged just for the thrill of it? Will an all-nighter be necessary to finish that...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, | Title: Procrastination at Harvard | 6/3/2003 | See Source »

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