I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.
As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn__ own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you don__ own a TV simply means you__e poor (or maybe depressed). In one ten-year span, high-end television usurped the cultural positions of film, rock, and literary fiction.
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As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn__ own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you don__ own a TV simply means you__e poor (or maybe depressed). In one ten-year span, high-end television usurped the cultural positions of film, rock, and literary fiction.
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