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...course at just the moment they become mainstream doctrine. The effect (although not the intention, usually) is to make outsiders and stylistic slow learners scramble to catch up. Thus today, as the giant architectural firms have begun routinely gussying up their new high-rise towers in pseudoantique brica-brac -- fake Corinthian columns, pediments and pyramidal tops -- the cutting edge has glided past. As postmodern cliches become ubiquitous, in other words, the movement is becoming passe...
...year in England was finished, he left. "After four years at an Episcopalian prep school, and three years at Eliot House, I had spent so much time with people pretending to speak like Englishmen that my arrival at Oxford was disconcerting," Kozol said. "I thought everyone there was a fake. Then I realized that was how they really spoke...
...politicians and the press have been quick to remind New Yorkers that substance abuse was the tragedy's principal cause, they have chosen to focus on Ms. Steel's ostensible abuse of alcohol instead of the behavior of the driver who struck her down. After all, she used a fake i.d. to buy drinks at Dorian's Red Hand, the same bar that Jennifer Dawn Levin visited on the night of her gruesome murder two months...
What Ms. Steel was doing earlier that evening, an hour before, or even 10 minutes before, had absolutely no bearing on the tragedy. Perhaps she had a drink or two, and maybe she obtained them with fake i.d. It doesn't matter one bit; she was not jumping in front of vehicles. Confoy's car wouldn't have bounced off her body had she been behaving "properly" that night, had she been helping a blind man cross the street instead of exiting from a bar with her underaged friends...
...parents of Ms. Steel's friends are probably doing it. After all, they will sleep better at night if they believe that they have some control over their children's fate, that they can protect their loved ones from every imaginable evil if they convince them not to use fake i.d.'s, not to take drugs, not to have...