Word: deconstructed
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...There's been a trend in history to deconstruct the past, and the truth found underneath is very often a dirty truth," he says. "There's a lack of human sympathy in that approach which offends...
They don't construct thrillers anymore, they deconstruct them. That is to say, they reduce them to a succession of spectacular set pieces either so familiar that they require no explanation or so spectacular that they momentarily overwhelm disbelief. It's as if they were making a musical that was all production numbers, no book; or an infinite trailer that is all effects, no affect...
...good face on activism; activism could only change "democratic" America for the good. In challenging America, we deconstruct it somewhat and this should be noted--activism could be potentially harmful for America. But the goal is to challenge America and its presuppositions and preconceptions for further growth, not to destroy America...
...libel by a Harvard Fellow, Lee A. Daniels (letter, March 7), and by a tenured Harvard professor, Martin Kilson (letter, March 12). Kilson calls me a "neo-White supremacist," or something close to it. Daniels calls me a "neo-Confederate" and offers an object lesson of how to deconstruct an author's text--without quoting it (see my letter of February 21)--in order to show that the author meant to say exactly the opposite of what the author actually said...
...suffers, first of all, from a lack of glamour. Some viewers have grown tired of seeing stylish young people on The Real World deconstruct their lives over fine coffee in well-appointed lofts. But it is preferable to watching the Road Rules ensemble tackle such messy chores as emptying the RV's latrine at a dump station. In The Real World, living groups are overloaded with preternaturally cute aspiring actors, models and musicians. The Road Rules crew is more ordinary -- five average-looking college-age men and women with no discernible show-biz goals -- but also less captivating...