Word: deconstructively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...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...
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...
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...