Word: trashings
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...that the host doesn't even bother to familiarize himself with globalization, today's subject, before he arrives on the set. He just shows up?his face scarred, his hair cut in a close-cropped Caesar?and coasts through yet another hour of live before-a-studio-audience television trash. Yet, despite his apparent indifference, he carries the show, not through arch commentary or the Japanese equivalent of Cowardesque wit, but by sheer force of his Beat-ness...
Last October, Phiri picked up an award for her efforts from the U.N. But, she says,"I still have people who look at me like trash..." Her voice trails off. "Sometimes when I go to sleep I fear for the future of my children. But I will not run away now. Talking about it: that's what's brave...
...Celebrated trash talk. Sexual innuendo during interviews. Rules that put the players' health at greater risk. That's what the XFL sells. And if we're buying, it'll come with a price. Now that the XFL is here, unhealthy attitudes will continue to poison sports...
...issue is not that sex is bad or violence is bad. It's the confrontational aspect of the XFL's play. Trash talk is just that, garbage. And if it makes sports so exciting, why not extend this level of animosity to the rest of our lives...
...American and Samoan. But there's an undeniable white-boyness to much of this trend--that familiar envy, from the '50s and on back, of the roguish cool that comes from being societally on the outs. So the white Rude Boy lashes out in Eminem's self-described "white trash" anger or embraces, while deprecating, his declasse alpha-maledom. Hence South Park's white Eric Cartman, one of whose trademark lines is, "Kiss my black...