Word: demigods
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DIED. JACQUES DERRIDA, 74, French philosopher and intellectual demigod; of pancreatic cancer; in Paris. Born into a Jewish family in Algeria, he earned his reputation with a series of philosophical works that combined daunting academic virtuosity with an enlightened playfulness. A man of immense charm, he was the godfather of deconstruction, a critical approach that emphasizes ambiguity, self-reference and multiple, shifting meanings and that unravels texts by teasing out the latent contradictions in them. Although his writings are notoriously elusive, their influence on literary criticism--and the culture at large--has been immeasurable...
...world. McCarthy wrote in 2001 of his "childlike pleasure" in seeing his books on shop shelves with those of writers he admired - and of the "thrill" of "moving McCarthy's Bar in front of Bill Bryson before anyone catches you." DIED. JACQUES DERRIDA, 74, French philosopher and intellectual demigod; in Paris. Born into a Jewish family in Algeria, he earned his reputation in the 1960s and '70s with a series of philosophical works that combined daunting academic virtuosity with an enlightened playfulness. A man of immense charm, he was the godfather of deconstruction, a critical approach that emphasizes ambiguity; self...
Fortunately, one small device can give me the power of a genie, a demigod and a high school-aged James Bond—my television remote. This summer I have rediscovered cartoons on cable, and life has been as glorious as a never-ending Saturday morning...
...married, and Agamemnon, brother of Helen's husband and king of the Greeks, sends 1,000 ships to Troy to get her back. Paris--a lover not a fighter--asks his noble brother Hector to defend him and the rest of Troy while the Greeks rally behind the demigod Achilles, the world's greatest warrior...
...regime if it came under threat. Since taking over upon his father's death in 1994, Kim has overseen a collapsing economy and a famine that killed more than 2 million people. The government cultivates a cult of personality around Kim--citizens are told to treat him as a demigod, and pictures of father and son hang in every public building in Pyongyang--but popular disgruntlement is growing, as North Koreans returning from China's boomtowns dispel any notion that life is better inside the Hermit Kingdom...