Word: slackers
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...slacker when it came to details, she augmented an orange vinyl jacket, blue paisley butterfly collar shirt and brown bell-bottoms with a thick gold chain and a patch of black chest hair...
Happily, Hornby does not rely on pop-cultural allusion to limn his characters' inner lives, but uses it instead to create a rich, wry backdrop for them. His hero is Rob Fleming, an aging, contemplative slacker who owns a London record shop and enjoys rattling off lists of his top five favorite Elvis Costello songs or episodes of Cheers. When Rob's friends suggest that he should test women with a questionnaire about their favorite artists and musicians, Rob jokes that it is "intended to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might at a later date...
...sweat self-mocking cool as God; Linda Ronstadt as the tremulous, winsome Margaret; Bonnie Raitt as Martha, a piece of trade tough enough to wring out the devil's heart; and Don Henley as Faust, reborn here as a guitar-strumming freshman at Notre Dame who's slacker enough to sign Satan's contract for his soul without great thought, or even a quick read through. Even the devil thinks Faust is lame...
When Jane Pratt, former Sassy editor, was 29, she told the New York Times she was "really, like, 19, you know." So now she's 32-just the right age to date Ethan ("Speaking of Goatees") Hawke, 24. Appropriately, the two were introduced by Richard Linklater, director of Slacker, and were last seen together at a party for Douglas Coupland, author of Generation...
...gets halfway through his new novel, Amis is providing mostly distraction. The comedy becomes shtiky, with a few exceptions--like the drunken theater critic who nearly completes the first word of his review before falling unconscious onto his keyboard. The word is "Chehko." But the setups grow progressively slacker, and Amis relies too heavily on old tricks: low comedy courtesy of London's petty-criminal class, Postmodern interjections from the author, and profundity cast as scientific metaphors. By now the literary uses of entropy are threadbare even for Amis...