Joanne Harris delivers mischief and murder to an English prep school in DIFFERENT CLASS (Touchstone, $26), a delightfully malicious view of privileged students with overly active imaginations.
Perry, who began his career at the center of a different cultural touchstone, "Beverly Hills, 90210," was cast as Archie Andrews' father, Fred, in the teen noir series based on the characters from Archie Comics.
But transplant the timeline to the summer of 1989 — the setting of Warner Bros.' slick new adaptation (the first for the big screen) — and you get different nostalgic touchstones.
It is weird when you and your child have some different cultural touchstones that you thought of as universal but are actually white (I am looking at you, birthday song). It is kind of tricky to explain MLK day and black history month to a kindergartner who is the only one in her class that looks like the oppressor, the only kid that has benefited from the oppression being exposed.
Hardy and drummer Micah Calabrese, who also plays some synthesizer, create dense, droning settings whose melodic content ranges from barely there to hook-filled, recalling at different points such touchstones as Mazzy Star, early Courtney Love and the Jesus and Mary Chain.
One excavation produced part of a torc, twisted together with a small gold bracelet and another fragment in a manner suggesting it was scrap; a different site produced a streaked touchstone indicating use in gold testing.
"That Playboy emblem is a beacon," Phillips said, "a touchstone where all these different aspects of our lives — art, politics, sex — come together without contradiction".
Dylan and Eliot Poundd less so) were my touchstones, exemplifying, in their different ways, what could be done to passing time by building into it unforeseen swerves of mind and language.
Each generation is defined by completely different experiences as reflected in their cultural touchstones.
Many Americans are finding that the familiar touchstones of this season have a different resonance than they did in past years.
