Word: meta
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...trabajo emplee Latinos y miembros de otras minor?as. "Entrar a nuestro plat? es como ir a Costco", dice. El comediante aspira a que los j?venes latinos que siguen su programa, vean -como ?l lo hizo con Prinze padre cuando hac?a Chico and the Man- que ellos tambi?n pueden tener ?metas, no s?lo sue?os. Lo que es un sue?o para un ni?o mexicano, para los ni?os anglos es una meta...
Above the door of the Dudley Co-op hangs a sign reading, “Center for High-Energy Meta-Physics.” This nickname, playing off the initials HEMP, encompasses the laid-back attitude and free spirit that characterizes the Dudley Co-op and its members...
...various short stories include lovingly written passages on superheroes. Lethem is penning a Marvel comic, Omega the Unknown, due in 2006. "Marvel dared me to put my love on the line," says the author, who is reviving a little-known character from the '70s. Omega is "kind of a meta-superhero," he says, a "bewildered visitor to the Planet Earth" with--yes--a cape. Next we'd like to finally see that Philip Roth pop-up book...
...cringing standstill, especially coming right after the delicately melancholy “Thoughts for the Unknowingly Bored.” “Thoughts” is appealing in its quiet simplicity, though even in the context of a mournful ballad, A + P manages to get bitten by the meta bug again: “The best band’s onstage, and you’ll never see them,” Wilkins sings wistfully...
Revision and renormalization are legitimate parts of artistic production—the artistic discourse, if you like—and I don’t see how your meta-claim that Blur was both aware of and subverting the ironic ethos of ’90s grunge makes that band any more effective. Introspection doesn’t have to be overt; not everybody can (or should) be Thom Yorke, and just because “Song 2” is an ironic song about irony doesn’t mean that Blur is any more interested in analyzing...