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...find an interesting fourth course, just follow attractive people to their classes and base your decision to enroll on how well your chat-up lines work. Try, "Would you mind showing me your Derrida?" for lit majors. They've got fabulous senses of humour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

...haven't read or bought his Colored People, but its apparent aim is to celebrate his acquisition of new clothes (with a very private label of "Chair" from the renowned designed, Harvard) and make some money while he's at it. Perhaps Gates should read less Derrida and more Hans Christian Andersen, "The Emperor's New Clothes" in particular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gates Follows the Brand Name | 5/25/1994 | See Source »

...genuflect before the gods of post modernism--Bakhtin, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan--or if you've been accompanying Umberto Eco during his walks in the fictional woods, you may want to take a look at this novel for its oppositional stance. Otherwise, you would be well advised to stay clear...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Rameau's Pastiche | 5/28/1993 | See Source »

...need to liberate the young from Foucault,[Jacques] Derrida and [Jacques] Lacan--from thisFrench theory crap," she said...

Author: By Rajath Shourie, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Paglia Criticizes Harvard Scholars | 3/20/1992 | See Source »

...distinction of Hughes' approach is that he can move, commandingly, from a Miro canvas to transvestite hookers in the street without missing a beat -- and bring to both the same kind of rigorous attention and full-bodied sensibility. Here is a critic who can put Joe Sixpack and Jacques Derrida in the same sentence. And if at times the sheer weight of detail may almost be dizzying to a newcomer, the text is enlivened at every turn by all the familiar props of the Hughes voice -- the mischievous erudition (translating a Latin motto as "Far down! Far out!"), the rococo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Story of Vim and Rigor | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

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