Word: dissects
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...poem carries juice to touch your soul. That’s the reason for poetry. Not to dissect it, like in literature classes...
...with her there, but then why dissect the story of Phaeton (Matthew I. Bohrer ’10) and Apollo (Hill) with such ruthless precision? Why have Apollo’s son tell his story to a long-winded psychiatrist, who tears Phaeton’s tale to shreds with psychoanalytical terminology? If the value of myth is its magical elusiveness, why pin it down? Fables may have morals, but myths do not, and this may be a distinction that Zimmerman forgot to make...
...English - videos and paintings, Calle subjects the e-mail to a tidal wave of abuse and cunning deconstruction. She recruits 107 women, including a few celebrated ones like Jeanne Moreau, Laurie Anderson and Miranda Richardson, to read the letter, act it out, set it to music or coolly dissect it. Many of them turn up on a video wall on which they perform and deform the text more than 30 ways, including as a Bunraku puppet show, an aria, a rap song and a clown routine. On another screen a white cockatoo grabs a paper copy in one claw...
This time, it’s doubtful that another eminence will deign to dissect Perret’s potboiler. And thus it falls to the student newspaper at Perret’s alma mater to shed light on the author’s errata...
...younger set. Greeting card company Hallmark estimates that people spend over $600 million on kids' cards, gift-wrap and partyware every year. Companies like Libby Lu have make-over parties, Build-A-Bear stores have private party rooms and there's even a museum that allows kids to dissect sheep's eyeballs. It can cost from $500 to $1,000 to hold a party at one of these venues - or $38,000 if you want to rent out famed toy store FAO Schwartz for a sleepover...