Word: urban
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...head-spinning “Fight Club” and the sardonic conversations of “Office Space,” “waydowntown” caricaturizes the monotony of the nine-to-five desk job and the homogenization of today’s modern urban life...
Today, the liberated Matt Mahan revels in his newly uncertain future. After he gets home from Peru, he plans work for Teach For America, a program which places recent graduates in under-funded urban-area classrooms. After that, the slate is blank...
...imitation of late 20th century city life--all junk, improvisations and random brutality--is your idea of civilization. Thunderdome brilliantly clarifies that irony. Its high-bounding excesses of action simultaneously satisfy and satirize the passion for heedless viciousness that so profoundly moves the action film's prime audience, urban adolescent males. They can be relied on not to notice or care about the sequence's central irony: that the decisive weapon in the struggle between Max and Blaster is, of all innocent objects, a simple silver whistle...
...Dallas, builds a pair of 8-ft. stilts and wades around a local lake, screaming obscenities at the rich people in boats motoring by. The narrator of Ride, Fly, Penetrate, Loiter also finds himself in Texas, which offends him: "Dallas, city of the fur helicopters. Dallas--computers, plastics, urban cowboys with schemes and wolf shooting in their hearts." He hops on his black motorcycle and heads back to where he belongs: "The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl...
...South Africa has grown more inflamed, the protest in Washington has kept pace. In response to Pretoria's imposition of a partial state of emergency, 1,500 demonstrators gathered outside the South African embassy last week; 43 were taken into custody, including John Jacob, the president of the National Urban League, and 35 of that organization's officials. Noting that he had never been arrested in a demonstration before, Jacob said, "It is an experience to be considered only when the principle is of vital importance...