Word: uncool
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...respect for them (The West Wing), from surrogate families (Seinfeld) to flawed but richly explored ones (The Sopranos). Above all, it is about rediscovering community in a culture that lionized the individual. Even the dark drama Six Feet Under features a gay character finding solace in, of all uncool places, his church. Most conspicuous is the World War II mania, from Saving Private Ryan and Tom Brokaw's encomium The Greatest Generation right up to this fall's HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which has rolled boomer reconnection with parents, guilt over easy prosperity and a longing for communal purpose...
...M.C.s (the guys with the microphones) -- Kit, Yan, Phat and Wah -- rap about fat girls, absent fathers, uncool triad gangsters, smoking dope and creating an authentic, home-grown pop culture. "So many kids in Hong Kong try to imitate the Japanese," says Yan, sitting in the LMF band room, meticulously rolling a Rizla cigarette paper around a line of weed. "It's not about nationalism or anything," he insists, "but no one should want to be a fake Japanese person." The group rarely uses English in their songs and resent accusations that they're just copying American hip-hop fashions...
...Harvard, the backlash against the snots seems well on its way. I've overheard a number of people commenting on how "uncool" punching the Pudding is this year-one girl jumped into my conversation while I was discussing this reversal with a friend: "You know, if I want to go out," she reasoned, "I want to do my hair, wear tight clothes, be fabulous and dance my ass off. I don't want to be in a stuffy room without alcohol, with a bunch of girls in Calvin Klein talking about New York...
Well, not really, Nicole. The government nabbed him. He had to give some of the money back, and he may still face criminal charges. That's pretty uncool. The folks at home, though, aren't thinking about any of that. This is a gilded new age in which everyone has the right to get rich, regardless of the means. Historians document periods of prosperity such as the current one. These periods almost always lead to a high incidence of scamming as the get-rich-quick mindset spreads...
Some of us fear heights. Some of us fear death. But do any of us fear being uncool? That incessant dread of suddenly being dismissed as irrelevant, that haunting possibility of becoming "domesticated" drives Madonna to be so desperately ambitious, impossibly brilliant and acutely self-aware. Madonna knows the impact of her own revolutionary spirit--the world has become incredibly small to her, if you think about it--and that has brought her both gargantuan fame and the stigma of arrogance. There is no question that Madonna has developed into somewhat of a pretentious personality. She clings to a smarmy...