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...that, more or less, is it. Payne follows this bit of cool condescension with a smooth line...
...surely) denounced the club’s allusions to Eli-on-Eli fellatio and the New York shortstop’s exploits at third base. Ultimately, Satire V was forced to look in the mirror and face the truth: homophobia just doesn’t exude the same retro-cool of racism and anti-Semitism—which totally blows, but what are you gonna...
...years since In My Father's Den became a Kiwi classic. The book's cool, ironic narrator Paul Prior, an English teacher rebelling against his religious upbringing, embodied the tough outsider of New Zealand literature, starting with John Mulgan's 1939 novel Man Alone. When Gee began writing the book in the late '60s, "we were able to shake off that oppressive Puritanism," the author, 73, recalls, "which wasn't only religious, it was secular." Novels like Gee's award-winning Plumb (1978), based on the life of his Presbyterian minister turned Communist grandfather James Chapple, continued that shaking...
...Misunderstood Artist. This slightly pretentious student is defined by his too-cool-for-school persona and grungy attire. Appearing detached is of primary concern. Therefore the student remains silent and sits alone in the corner to appear angst-ridden and pensive. He usually smokes before section and en route to The Advocate...
...Sweet, Naked, Secrets & Lies) and never more so than in this film. He simply recounts the story with unblinking objectivity. The almost comic cluelessness of Vera's family, the phlegmatic spirit of the policemen processing her case, the attitudes of her patients, ranging from the hysterical to the cool--they are all there. Yet there's nothing forced or movieish in Leigh's treatment...