Word: zigs
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...more adored by cubicle-dwelling Gen-Xers than geek kitsch. And nothing is geekier or kitschier than Japanese video games of the 1980s, back when efficient translation was not considered essential. The dialogue of Zero Wing contains such gems as "Somebody set us up the bomb," "Take off every Zig for great justice" and a chilling warning from a villain known only as Cats: "All your base are belong to us." Late last year, fans with too much time on their hands started doctoring photos to show this last phrase cropping up everywhere from George W. Bush billboards to Budweiser...
...zig-zag-and-fall of Details was more than a clash between tony Conde Nast culture and the ruffian lad-mag sensibility. It was a clash between rival ideas of manhood. Men's mags have slavered over women before--remember Vargas girls?--but with an affect of gentlemen's-club exclusivity. Young men turned to them as tutors in the mysteries of manhood. Today youths prefer populist outlets like Maxim and TV's The Man Show, which toast an uncomplicated guy-hood. Details, finally, didn't party hard enough...
...then he says all the right things. In some eyes he is merely a brash, Porsche-driving, bungee-jumping populist politician. In others he is a racist and an apologist for Nazism. He is unfairly vilified and misunderstood--or he is just plain bad. What is certain about the zig-zag course of Jorg Haider's right-wing ideology is that last week it brought him and his Freedom Party into a coalition government in Austria--and left the 14 other member countries of the European Union in a state of indignation. As Haider and his political partner, Wolfgang Schussel...
...dangerous locations and badgering violent interview subjects. And sometimes it means coming up with a flimsy excuse to get your editors to send you to the Sundance Film Festival. As lots of people in my office were doing the former, I did the latter. You've got to zig when they...