Word: sophomoricism
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Popular recognition of chick rock has been a long time coming. Liz Phair was using naughty words long before Meredith Brooks set out to use the word bitch as a means of empowerment, and Ani DiFranco was shaking things up while Jewel was still reading by candlelight on the granola...
Why would anyone ask faux feminist Paglia her opinion on anything? Since when is Paglia a pundit on popular culture? Her pseudo-intellectual rants and sophomoric philosophizing are pure reactionary rhetoric. DAVID TRUDELL Los Angeles
Much of the sophomoric behavior that has infiltrated the council is aggravated by an air of self-importance. For example, several weeks ago the council voted to allot $300 out of its $16,250 SpringFest budget to purchase fried dough--but not until after a vigorous debate. Which carnival food...
Here's my prediction: no Web publisher will make money this year or even, maybe, the next few. This is an infant medium; it needs time to find its way. A print magazine can take five years and many millions of dollars before turning a profit, and that's in...
All official ceremonies are falsities, of course, freeze-frame displays of institutional continuity. (A nickel, please, for every TV commentator who used the phrase "orderly passage of power.") But this Inauguration Day seemed more of a pretense than usual--the disjuncture between what was going on and what was really...