Word: cool
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...live in his freshman year at Stanford and determining which wind instrument he should play. At our first session, we spent most of the time telling our life stories and how they had led us to become paragons of selfless giving. Then we let him know just how cool we were. Eventually, I found myself saying things like, "I did some of the rap singing myself in seventh grade. I called myself the Rap King...
...encrypted and belonged to small groups of with-it hipsters, you would never find a bargain there. You would never find much of anything. You'd have to wait till some hacker in the know was willing to give you the power handshake and turn you on to the cool stuff. That might not cost very much, but it doesn't feel very free...
There are scenarios, however, in which technology may brake itself. In the aging population of the developed world, many people are already tired of trying to keep up with the latest cool new tech. Youth-driven tech acceleration could be interpreted as simple youthful folly--shortsighted, disruptive, faddish. The market for change could dry up, and lock-in might again become the norm. Stress and fatigue make powerful decelerators...
...from her name there's nothing particularly Latina about her - unlike the bad guy Peoples, who is a screamingly camp, caricatured Dominican drug dealer. But when the original came out you didn't have the culture jam-packed with images of black athletes, actors and musicians defining what was cool. Back then, the very fact of having an aggressive, rebellious, stylish, smart black man as its hero thrilled audiences. Now you see Samuel Jackson in these Armani clothes, and there's nothing unusual or remarkable about him - I kept giggling to myself because he looked like the R&B singer...
...Jennifer: This was one chaste Shaft. There was nothing cool or sexy about him - and he didn't ever seem to get any! The title sequence has this really sensual series of cuts of a black couple making love, but it might as well have been for a different movie. The original Shaft exuded sexual energy and confidence, but there's nothing in this script that gives you any idea of why these women would want to sleep with him. When he drops that "duty to satisfy the booty" line out of the blue, it's incongruous. Frankly, Samuel Jackson...