Word: je
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around the collar for Dickie's lifestyle, even if it comes with Gwyneth Paltrow as an accessory too sweetie-pie elegant for its own good. Of course, Mr. Ripley doesn't last too long as Dickie's new toy. Tensions arise from all sides. Tom lacks that preppie Princetonian je ne sais quoi, and he feels, well, a little too hot around the collar about Dickie for his own good, especially after Dickie gets bored and moves on to fresher playthings...
...what, after all, is popularity? Popularity--basing cliques on money and genes and je ne sais quoi--is class with training wheels. In a country that pretends it is entirely middle class, high school series serve as surrogate examinations of social barriers. (Or certain ones: while the great dramatic potential of high school comes from its throwing together kids whose parents don't work or play together, these shows are almost uniformly white.) This In crowd-obsessed setting comes as close as is Nielsen-feasible to admitting that class is still in session: that it does matter where you were...
...JE: Crime to me, dark social history, ebb andflow of dark events, the near psychopathic,semi-psychopathic, the leg-breakers of history area voice for me to express my moral concernsbecause these are men who paid morally for theirdark deeds. I am first and last and always amoralist. They are the means for me to recreatehistory to my own specifications, but I am notthem.There is a definite distinction betweenmost writers and their work. Because the work is,in the end, as it is in my case, a work ofimagination, with the exception of thenon-fiction...
...JE: A wild man. I have a wild imagination. Iknow how to perform in front of a crowd. That'sfive percent of it. Specifically, when I go on abook tour, I feel like an animal that's beenuncaged...
...JE: No. I am contemplative. I'm hardworking.I'm meticulous, I'm diligent, I have a veryfinely-attuned conscience