Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snappy inventiveness of language (e.g. Billings' dissection of humans' "homeostasis") and a general tactic of grounding anything lofty--ideas and ideals, or here just decency--through bizarre, often inappropriate juxtaposition with the mundane. For the latter, think of The Big Lebowski's Walter and The Dude solemnly scattering their friend's ashes from a Quaker Oats box, into the wind. Thus DeGeneres' Pompano wolfs a corndog while questioning the distraught wife of the murdered. Or Billings at an autopsy, blood-sprayed by a being-buzzawed skull, protesting, absurdly, "Whoa, whoa, whoa" as if it were kids with a Super Soaker...
...beginning of the book, Jack makes friends with legendary sheriff Bat Masterson and meets his old friend Wild Bill Hickok once again, Wild Bill dies while under Jack's guard, and grieving Jack decided it is time to keep moving; Jack travels with Bat to Tombstone, the first of his many journeys. There, he sees Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, both mean and rather flawed heroes; Jack follows them to the Ok Corral anticipating trouble, and describes the misunderstandings leading to needless violence that happen in the legendary showdown...
Then there's the possibility that the friend got to the party and wasn't able to get in. I have been that person, and it's possibly one of the most frustrating things ever...
...wants to go where becomes the big debate. "Let's go to Tommy's," says one friend, after a party. "No way, let's go to Adams to hang out with people there," says another. "Let's just go home," says a third. Clearly these people will be separating, but they first need to figure out how and who and when. The most amusing struggles with the art of compromise play out late on Friday and Saturday nights somewhere along Mt. Auburn Street...
...anything important? Thanks, I'll take Katha Pollitt. Sure, Matt Damon is cute, like the way your fourth grade class gerbil was cute, even after it ate pencil shavings and died. You proclaim Vincent Gallo "the most brilliant man ever." His photo-essay reads, and I quote, "And my friend Val Kilmer was dating Cher. Then Cher was my friend, too. I was friends with Cher. I was friends with Val and Cher." Nuanced! Jade Jagger is described as "talented and beautiful and successful." Mightn't it be more worthwhile to feature someone who manages to earn a living making...