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...nurtured the unresolved aspects of his infantile self with abandon." Buddy Hassett, who played for Ruth when he coached Brooklyn in 1938, revealed the true secret of the Babe's gluttony: "He had a great digestive system." As the Babe might have said if he had had the vocabulary: deconstruct that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: THE BAMBINO MEETS THE EGGHEADS | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

Still, instead of watching Braderman deconstruct these great films and the celebrities who star in them, go out and rent the movies themselves and come up with your own criticisms about popular culture. They could very well be more insightful than Braderman...

Author: By Rachel E. Silverman, | Title: FLEA Circus | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

Approach one of these eager-beaver debaters and ask a really hard question. You might want to bring a dictaphone to capture the 15-minute spew, too. Just assure the lad that he won't be punished for going over the time limit, and try to deconstruct his constructive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATTACK OF THE ORATORS | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

...overwhelming fact of life--and of death--for millions of Jews." She contends that "those who look for the 'long-term' processes and impersonal 'structures' in history tend to explain this 'short-term event' in such a way as to explain it away: and those seeking to 'deconstruct' the history of the Holocaust as they deconstruct all of history come perilously close to the 'revisionists' who deny the reality of the Holocaust...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: Himmelfarb Pushes Post-structuralism Into the Abyss | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...start to read everything as a text. This primarily afflicts humanities and social science concentrators (though physics students, I imagine, might start to see closing doors and rolling chairs a little differently, too). You deconstruct dining hall conversation. "But when you said you desired more spanikopita, what was the referent?" You start to speak in paragraphs; you wait your turn. A friend at the head of the table starts calling on people. You bus your tray and get back to work...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: The Culture of Stress | 11/6/1993 | See Source »

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