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...exists no longer, principally because failure in modern, NASDAQ times has no redeeming social value. In its place sit rows and rows of gleaming successes. Last week, on the same day that I saw Wonder Boys, I watched a different bunch of wonder boys (and women) strut their stuff on a TV special called Summit in Silicon Valley. ("Bunch" is wrong for the collective noun. "Grin?") I watched a grin of high-tech billionaires sunning themselves in national adoration, bright models of achievement for every double-breasted hopeful yearning for a Lexus. No one mentioned beautiful losers. The last shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vanished, Banished Beautiful American Loser | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...Even more disturbing, he is forced down our throats as the sole sex symbol of the production (unless you count BJ Avrell's legs...) and he emits little of the "loco libido" he is so proud of. In other words, he's all talk - a peacock who can't strut...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Proof is in the Pudding | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

...assigned to go with Nate Gray, a first-year. Well, a tall first-year. That was okay. I was a self-sufficient woman, and I had my mace. No one was going to mess with me. And besides, I wasn't convinced that these wrestlers did anything but strut anyway...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is the WWF Spectacular Theater or Total Trash? A WWF Newbie's Account | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

Approximately 100 students braved air temperatures close to zero and a wind chill estimated at around 30 to 40 degrees below to strut their stuff through the Yard. Several hundred more students and staff crowded the Yard to catch a peek of the gutsy exhibitionists...

Author: By Jonathan F. Taylor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yard Goes Wild for Primal Scream | 1/19/2000 | See Source »

...keeps me in your arms/I wanna thank you for giving me time to breathe." There's some complexity there, right? (Bear with me. Just pretend there's some complexity.) But the video seems to be playing to a whole new set of lyrics. The plot? Christina and her posse strut into a room full of drooling guys, one of which is presumably her boyfriend. I say that he might be her boyfriend because when she walks in, one of his friends says, "Hey, your girl is here." In any case, Christina rejects his come-ons, giving the impression that...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In The [K]now | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

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