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Slacker cohort re-'X'amined; Gen-Xer ideas seen boosting American culture.(SHOW)(ON THE EDGE)
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Byline: Scott Galupo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
In last year's hit comedy "Juno," the teenage title character played by Ellen Page discovers that the thirtysomething man to whom she has agreed to entrust her baby is himself an overgrown baby and, what's worse, likes tuneless alternative rock bands such as Sonic Youth.
Yet another dis of a generation - X - that has gotten used to being dissed. ("Slackers," anyone?)
Jeff Gordinier, editor at large of Details magazine and the author of "X Saves the World," feels it from both sides: from baby boomers and Generation-Yers, or ...
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Divided we stand; the rejection of American culture since the 1960s.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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; ...Divided we stand; the rejection of American culture since the 1960s. McElroy, John Harmon...counter-culture movement's antagonism toward American culture is the most serious internal threat...pernicious effects of the left's war on American culture in virtually every sphere of ...
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American cultural studies; an introduction to American culture, 2d ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...cultural studies; an introduction to American culture, 2d ed. Campbell, Neil. Routledge...to theme, covering new ideas about American culture and identity from scholars and the...and empire, and the transmission of American culture with media, the net and music as case...
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Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. (Reviews).
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; ...and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. By Uta G. Poiger...in West Germany of discourse about American culture. A superb chapter on the evolution...West Germans reacted similarly to American culture. Both perceived Americanization as...
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American 'culture'-and its influence.
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; ...patronizing to refer to contemporary American culture as somehow a doubtful entity, but...great influence in the wider world. American 'culture' has been inextricably bound up this...joust with Sen. McCain. One aspect of American 'culture' dealt with below, a huge penchant...
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Wal-Martians. (Editor's Note).(Wal-Mart's impact on American culture)
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; ...undue sway Wal-Mart now holds over American culture. The article by David D. Kirkpatrick...imposing their value systems on the American culture. On the contrary, I'm persuaded that...Warner victims in the hijacking of American culture? Or are they co-conspirators? Or are...
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American Culture: An Anthology.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; American Culture: An Anthology. Anders Breidlid, Fredrik Christian Brgger, Oyvind...been omitted. The emphasis here remains, as the title suggests, on American culture for it is this culture that is the most pervasive export from the...
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Stars, Stripes and Diamonds: American Culture and the Baseball Film.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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; 0786425180 Stars, stripes and diamonds; American culture and the baseball film. Most, Marshall G. and Robert...State U.) explore the connection between baseball and American culture through the idealized lens of baseball films. They...
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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2003-2004.(RECREATION, LEISURE, SPORT)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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; ...0-7864-2196-7 The Cooperstown symposium on baseball and American culture, 2003-2004. Title main entry. Ed. by William M. Simons...2003 and 2004 at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, the longest running and most famous conference of its...
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Philosophy Americana: Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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; 0823225518 Philosophy Americana; making philosophy at home in American culture. Anderson, Douglas R. Fordham University Press 2006 294...relationship between American philosophy and other features of American culture. The 15 essays, about a third of them previously published...
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Visual rhetoric; a reader in communication and American culture.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...Visual rhetoric; a reader in communication and American culture. Ed. by Lester C. Olson et al. Sage Publications...should interest students and scholars of modern American culture. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
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