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And it is with only the softest of shamefaced chuckles that he notes how The Matrix has displaced Blade Runner as "the academic's smart cultural reference of choice".
In this piece, and in too much art floating around these days, the idea seemed to be that, as smart cultural consumers, viewers can make of such vapid concoctions a thoughtful commentary on some aspect of our contemporary society.
By 1998, when he had toned down his designs and was making clothes for women, too (his first collection was called Butch/Fem), critics and insiders were swooning at his tailoring, bold antiminimalism and smart cultural references.
Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air and Young Adult all shared a taste for whip-crack chat and smart cultural reference that leavened the gut punches.
The show regularly features more than one person of color at a time on screen, and there's smart cultural criticism doled out alongside the comedy as well as what may be the best television soundtrack in a long time.
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YASUKO YOKOSHI Her finely wrought dances are some of the smartest cultural investigations around.
As Wired's most recent cover star, Williams penned a poignant -- and frequently hilarious -- first-person essay for the magazine, detailing the current state of celebrity news and her dreams of pushing gossip sites toward smarter cultural analysis.
"Gossip Girl" is swaddled in smart-aleck cultural allusions, from a dream sequence modeled on the trench-coat-in-the-rain last scene of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" to Eliot Spitzer.
Up the road sits a smart glass-fronted cultural centre, complete with 500-seat theatre and two cinema screens.
The first "Bergen wave" came crashing down a decade ago, when Norway became smart pop's cultural epicentre for the first time since, well, the glory days of A-ha.
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