Word: conformists
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...that particularly unattractive group of “wannabe-artist poseurs.” There are some real gems, to be sure, from luminaries such as Howard Zinn, Judith Butler, Mary Gaitskill and Ken Kesey. But they are well hidden among pages and pages of trite, aggressively anti-conformist near-propaganda from second-tier artists and “philosophers.” The only really successful instruction the book provides is on how to put together a bad advice book. Here’s a quick summary...
...developed a cult follwing, but hers is particularly eclectic and notorious. A friend, before leaving for the show, changed her AOL IM away message to “Me, Ani and 4,000 screaming lesbians” a reference to Ani’s core audience of non-conformist young women. But looking around the Orpheum, there indeed were an awful lot of young women in head scarves, but there were a remarkable amount of men of all ages, and more than a few women of indeterminable age dressed in their Chanel best...
...thankfully back in the day our requirements were a little different. We had to swim the length of the pool in the MAC. We didn’t have those prerequisites to satisfy, thank goodness. Once you get a little older, you become a bit more of a conformist and become a little more mainstream: When you listed those, I was blushing, but swimming was the only one that frightened me at the time...
...still have no idea what I want to do. Maybe even less of an idea,” he says. He questions his desire to work a desk job, though he mangles the expression in a slightly comical way which suggests he might be unfamiliar with such non-conformist slogans: “I don’t even know if I want to sit in a desk for the next two years.” In a desk, at a desk, whatever—his sentiment is clear, and a little strange coming from someone who also makes comments...
...their favorite daily comic strip. A reader poll had shown Bill Griffith's "Zippy the Pinhead" to be unpopular despite having first appeared as a daily in San Francisco over fifteen years ago. Had the city changed so much that it could no longer tolerate the strip's non-conformist structure and idiosyncratic ramblings? Most of America doesn't understand "Zippy," the best daily comic strip printed today. Here's help...