The mature American male is an idiot unable to cope with the emasculating competitive careerism of women (itself a laughable charade); he can save himself only by a wilful reversion to adolescence. But in the reversion, he must die. (Hmmm. Why exactly?)
The Subtle Stink That Mars ‘American Beauty’ By Lance Morrow. @ time.com… Movie review on American Beauty.
emasculate = To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
auteurs
Auteurs everywhere are trying to break into show biz by doing it themselves—and putting it online. Now they just have to get you to watch.
Everyone's a star.com By Romesh Ratnesar and Joel Stein. time.com. @ time.com…
auteur = a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works.
ascetic
“So I was wondering why call/cc is not implemented.”.
Because the Common Lisp crowd doesn't want you to implement manually all the control flow mechanisms that CALL/CC is used to implement, and that is because there is no desire to pare the language down to “essentials” or Scheme's ascetic/annorexic notions of “elegance”.
continuations and cl by Erik Naggum. Newsgroup posting on comp.lang.lisp.
ascetic = A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline.
nebulous
cloudy, as in nebula
presage
If any feminist cultural critics want to wring their hands over Oxygen's media offerings, they should be doing so not because it's so banal, but because it presages a spectacular failure for a high-profile female's business venture.