Word: cool
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...could talk with the people carrying out these disruptions, I'd tell them that their actions just aren't the cool thing to do; these attacks aren't impressive. They require no sophistication. They are analogous to throwing paint remover on cars driving down the street, and they're getting a bunch of people angry. I've learned a very painful lesson--avoid any contact with the criminal-justice system, because it's a system that's stacked completely in favor of the prosecution...
...book about Howard Hughes that he's talking to Michael Mann about directing. "That's the best part about the position I'm in now. I have all the materials to create my own future. That's the coolest thing." Sure, though I'd like to hear about how cool the dating part...
...future brings a world of clamorous buildings, it is possible that the cool virtues of Modernism will be rediscovered. "For me, Modernism is a way of understanding the most direct way of making things," says Richard Meier, who designed the Getty Center in Los Angeles. "Technology gives us the ability for a continual exploration of that question 'How do we come down to the essence of things?'" What worries some people is that a few decades of promiscuous creativity will clog the world with second-rate imitation Gehrys, strenuously entertaining streetscapes and Times Squares in every town square. "The Guggenheim...
...voters for life, they all tend to be very, very old (I bet It's a Wonderful Life gets a few write-in votes every year)--so the nominees always represent either good, wholesome entertainment or box-office blockbusters (when older people are in doubt as to what's cool, they just follow the charts. By that rationale, Pokemon probably placed 6th in the Best Picture race.) So they nominate The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile and The Sixth Sense instead of the three real best pictures of the year--The Talented Mr. Ripley, Being John Malkovich...
...watch these people deal with emotional and moral dilemmas. Pitch Black's greatest strength is that it actually has a story to tell, and characters that develop and change. Seems like a simplistic idea, doesn't it? But it makes for a cool combination of primal and sophisticated tension and suspense that's wonderfully nerve-wracking to watch...