Word: hipster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...track, The Horses. But just as quickly, the changes will be obvious. The jazz inflections and beat intonations are still intact, but all the mannerisms have been pared away. Jones isn't hiding behind artifice anymore. Her lyrics may be enigmatic, her music an eccentric mixture of rock, electrified hipster jazz and reggae, but she makes it all flow by the sheer force of her feeling...
...enough. But nooo! Wired insists on merging the complex flashback devices of two favorite old movies. So on one swerving narrative track, Woodward (J.T. Walsh), like the reporter in Citizen Kane, gets dirty dish from the star's friends. On the other, an angel of death (Ray Sharkey), a hipster version of the guardian angel in It's a Wonderful Life, escorts the dead Belushi (Michael Chiklis) to the scenes of his ebullient crimes...
...objective biography than his Elvis (1981). Goldman, a pop-culture maven and former professor of English at Columbia University, had no sympathy for Presley or for the gospel, country and rockabilly traditions that fused in his music. Much of Elvis crouches at the level of a self-conscious hipster poking fun at a greaseball bumpkin...
...about my life. To put my life in it, it would have to be a nine-hour movie. Like Roots." Roots with raunch. As he says in the book: "I like to play music, softball, twenty questions, chess, croquet, house, and around." In the vocabulary of a courtly hipster, he records his struggles with concupiscence ("Her temptation was awaiting my default and ate at my ethics like an itch"), though he does admit that one night he declined an invitation to visit the hotel room of an amorous Little Richard. Chapters are devoted to each of Berry's three jail...
...A.R.T. regulars put on uniformly excellent performances--they're well accustomed to the meta-theatrical games of The Day Room. Having toured with the show, they have perfected DeLillo's twisted conception of dialogue. Hipster author Jay McInerny, who seems to have royally ripped off DeLillo's Americana in his best-selling Bright Lights, Big City, has pointed out that DeLillo captures speech patterns everyone recognizes but no one writes. His one-liners and brilliant speeches are always a bit skewed--his characters never quite connect with their minds, leading to bizarre propositions like...