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...last several years." I lecture Anderson, perhaps overdoing The Harvard Angle. "Praise and critical attention have been showered on his work from a number of unlikely sources, including The American Museum of the Moving Image. "Also, several serious papers (full of words like 'reify' and references to Lacan) have been published that connect the Pee Wee Herman phenomenon to recent trends in art. Finally, all this attention has spurred the re-release of a collection of 'Pee Wee's Playhouse' episodes on videotape...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Pee Wee's Next Adventure | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...apologize for my absense last week, but I had to attend the Lacan convention to expand my knowledge of psychoanalysis and serve you better. While my absense was regrettable, I must say that visiting Paris was not. Oh, the sights and sounds of Gay Paris...! It was positively dreamy. I dined at the most delicious restaurants, attended the most fabulous theater, schmoozed with the most marvelous people and emptied the yearbook's expense account on the Champs Elysie. However, of everything I did in Paris, I will never forget Jacques. He really knew his way around the Eifel Tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norma Knows | 3/9/1995 | 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 »

...high profile is that Paglia has bristling opinions on subjects other than feminism -- particularly education. She advocates a core curriculum based mostly on the classics and rails against what she considers politicized frills, such as most African-American studies and the currently chic French theorists Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan. Never one to let consistency get in her way, Paglia has a strong libertarian streak -- on subjects like pornography -- that go straight to her '60s coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bete Noire of Feminism: CAMILLE PAGLIA | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

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