Word: revelation
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more bullfights either. Death is an omnipresent enough force as it is: Why glorify or dwell on it more than necessary? When it comes to Spanish culture, I’d say, Spaniards and toursists alike should stick with flamenco, sherry, and tapas—that is, we should revel in life...
...human shells around them that serve as a constant reminder of their own mortality. In his fitter form, Coupland would make short, humorous work of this as well, but he hesitates to mock what is clearly a personal issue for him. Hints at autobiographical despair culminate in the revelation that the only solace from a painful world is found on the glossy surface of mass-produced bond paper.The novel is framed as the journal entries and correspondences of forty-something Staples employee Roger Thorpe. The office supply megastore is not an unusual choice for Coupland, who has made...
...hazy memory: there are flashes of a crowded N.J. Transit train, glimmers of a vantage point high above the 20-yard line, and echoes of a brassy fight song. Most vivid are the Eion Hu jokes. Childish stuff, the kind of humor a 10-year old could revel in:“Hu scored that touchdown?”“Yeah.”“No, who was it that scored?”“Hu!”It was a sunny Saturday afternoon at the old Palmer Stadium in Princeton, a football...
...believe the world is coming to an end” while fireworks explode behind him. Which actualizes the subtext: the apocalyptic terror in the song is really sheer elation. In fact, Rob reveals, we are all masochists. We can’t wait for the end, so we can revel in a glorified YouTube clip that packs modern world history into a three-minute adrenaline rush. That, or we’re rejoicing in our arrival at our oh-my-gosh-super-incredible societal situation, epitomized by shots of Hillary and Obama. Look how far we’ve come?...
...these dramas wandered off into glamour-trash TV (remember Dallas?) and then into total disuse. Something like Bier's film (or the much darker Danish film, The Inheritance of a few years back) reminds us of what we're missing. It's not just the elegant country houses we revel in. It's the sense these movies convey that money - the giving and withholding of it - is a powerful melodramatic instrument, something that can dominate (and warp) lives. You need mature actors to play in pictures like these and you need someone like Bier to impart a dark, but still...