Word: deconstructively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view, a historical episode has been forgotten, even repressed, if a movie hasn't been made about it), but it was a colossal waste of his discretionary time to do corrective research. Henry shuddered at the memory of the week JFK opened. It had taken an entire semester to deconstruct Oliver Stone's paranoid fantasy, and even then he still lost two students who became convinced that Henry was part of the conspiracy...
...reinstate the country's first freely elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Shortly after Aristide's return, the U.S. created the first civilian police force in Haitian history. It was to be the cornerstone of Haiti's new democracy. With trustworthy police, U.S. officials predicted, Haiti could finally begin to deconstruct its dictatorship, reconstruct its economy and build from scratch all the judicial, political and civil institutions necessary for a working democracy...
...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...