Word: zeitgeists
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...become the people our parents warned us about!" That quip by veteran singer Jimmy Buffet underscored the zeitgeist at Thursday night's major Democratic fund-raiser at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Vice President Al Gore and running mate Joe Lieberman, with respective spouses and Hillary Clinton for good (and local) measure were the front-row guests of honor through a three-hour concert that raised a very impressive $6.5 million...
...think the American atmosphere, the American imagination (news, movies, books, music, fact, fiction, entertainment, culture, life in the streets, zeitgeist) is now so filled with murder and violence (gang wars, random shootings not just in housing projects but in offices and malls and schools) that violence of any kind - including solemn execution - has become merely a part of our cultural routine and joins, in our minds, the passing parade of stupidity/psychosis/chaos/entertainment that Americans seem to like, or have come to deserve. In Freudian terms, the once forceful (and patriarchal) American Superego (arguably including the authority of law, of the presidency...
...youth-zeitgeist factor didn't work for any of these shows," says J.J. Abrams, creator of Felicity (Wednesday, 9 p.m. E.T.). "There was definitely a glut." The college comedy-drama, much praised in its debut year, has struggled as a sophomore, prompting the risible and vaguely sexist criticism that the ratings dived because star Keri Russell cut her flowing, curly hair. (Would that Billy's dye job had done the same for Ally McBeal.) "It's something that a girl of that age, having gone through serious changes, would realistically do," says Abrams, who blames the drop...
...even if his spiky orange hair and Day-Glo togs make him look more like a Rugrat these days than a rebel. Lydon is ensconced in Nickelodeon's editing room finishing the second episode of Rotten Television, his new series for Nick's sister channel, VH1. A free-form zeitgeist diatribe, it has no script, a shoestring budget and zero structure. "What's the fun in having a format?" he asks, burping nonchalantly and narrowing his eyes to a laser glare. "I'll leave that to everyone else...
...unpaid labor of friends and artists. All of these spaces have tremendous ideals--some even have manifestos. They propose to help emerging artists and to bring art out of the museum and into the neighborhood. Some have more political agendas as well, such as the strong progressive flavor of Zeitgeist Gallery or the kicky feminism of Bad Girrls Studios...