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Posted on 20/09/03

Too hip by half

Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs*:*A Low Culture ManifestoBy Chuck KlostermanScribner, 244 pages, $34.50There is a scene in the 1989 film Say Anything in which Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) is having dinner with the girl he loves and her nice, middle-class father and he's asked, now that he's finished high school, what he's planning for the future. What Lloyd answers is this, he says: "Kick-boxing sir, which is a new sport . . . I can't really tell if I'm good. I haven't been knocked out yet. I can't really figure it out tonight so for now, I'm just going to hang with your daughter."

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