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28 Popular Culture Review Notes 1. Todd Gitlin, “Postmodernism Defined, At Last!,” The Utne Reader (July/August 1989), p. 56. 2. Sartre writes: Take, for example, the waiter in the cafe. His movement is quick and studied, a little too precise, a little too rapid. He comes toward the patrons with a step a little too quick. He bends forward a little too eagerly; his voice, his eyes express an interest a little too solicitous for the order of the customer. Finally there he returns, trying to imitate in his walk the inflexible stiffness of some kind of automaton while carrying his tray with the recklessness of a tightrope walker by putting it in a perpetually unstable, perpetually broken equilibrium which he perpetually re-establishes by a light movement of the arm and hand. (The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, ed. Robert Denoon Cumming [New York: Vintage Books, 1965], pp. 151-152.). 3. Sidney M. Jourard, The Transparent Self, revised edition (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, 1971), p. 133. 4. Frederic Jameson, “Excerpts from Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” in A Postmodern Reader, ed. Joseph Nitoli and Linda Hutcheon (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), p. 319. 5. Ihab Hassan, “Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective,” Critical Inquiry 12 (Spring 1986), p. 505. 6. Qtd. in Irene Lacher, “The Era of Fragments,” Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1994, El. 7. The word “lifestyle” was coined by the psychologist Alfred Adler. 8. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992), p. 1040. 9. Qtd. in David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), pp. 245-246. 10. Brooks, p. 246. 11. Both were bom in 1912. 12. Peter N. Steams, American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth Century Emotional Style (New York: New York University Press, 1994), p. 302. 13. According to the 2000 census, 2.4 million American grandparents were full-time caretakers of their grandchildren. 14. When I asked them what their favorite TV show was, not surprisingly all four replied, “Friends.”