Word: slackers
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...from the video store talk dirty but think long and wistfully about the life that is passing them by. Their customers and girlfriends are just as lost, goofy and irrelevant. The budget for Kevin Smith's movie was $27,575, but he's the Chekhov of slacker life -- and maybe of America's secret life...
Lauren's publication is nothing more than a newfangled collection of buzzwords. The cover of November's premiere issue features text-art including AIDS, the Internet, Sex, Phat, Apathy, Slacker, Segregation, Lollapallooza, Beavis, Butthead, Real World, Influential, Multicultural, Promiscuous, Activists, Brady Bunch, Woodstock, Skeptical, Cynical, Bust, Boom, Driven, Idealist and Hype...
...been called one of the 10 best films of all time (International Critics Poll, Sight and Sound), a boring film about boredom (John Simon) and, in Antonioni's own words, "a mystery film in reverse," but, to this reviewer's knowledge, it has not yet been called the ultimate slacker film...
...that, depending on how you define slacker, is what it is. The characters in Antonioni's 1961 critically acclaimed masterpiece do not do anything. They loll onboard a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily, drive through the countryside in open convertibles, and pass each other in the halls of rich hotels and apartments. Antonioni's beautiful women and their idle, sour men lack a moral structure to their actions and, along the same lines, Antonioni's film lacks a narrative structure for its own action...
Although the title suggests that the book is a sociological study of a culture of depression among America's non-slacker youth, it is simply the tedious and poorly written story of Wurtzel's melodramatic life, warts and all (actually, all warts). At one point she tells us that her mouth has become tired and chapped from giving too many blow jobs; we learn all about her dysfunctional family; and we hear about her Bacchanalian exploits in the Adams House of yore. The book is written as a straight narrative, interspersed with italicized, stream-of-consciousness peeks into Wurtzel...