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There's something meta-theatrical about everything I do, I love the sense of theatricality invading its own medium. I love designing to implicate the spectator, to put them into...
...Meta-Humor: This Pudding show never lets you forget you're watching The Pudding show. "I feel like breaking into an orchestrated song with lots of choreography," Henderson says at a particularly romantic moment. Searching through Grump's office in the dark, the characters happen upon...a nine-piece band. When Jeannie Ality reveals that she is in fact Prince Spaghetti, the response is automatic: "A man dressed as a woman? Silliest thing I've ever heard...
This album also displays their absolute mastery of the 6/8 country ballad ("If you were the woman and I was the man"--a duet with John Prine), the prison song ("Oregon Hill") and the music-industry (or meta-) song ("To Live is to Fly"). Along with these, though, are the kind of sustained big-art-songs, like the title track that I, at least, expect from the Junkies...
...Oxford study was a milestone not only in breast-cancer research but also in the use of a new statistical technique called meta-analysis, which enables researchers to pool data from many studies and compare otherwise incomparable results. The technique was recently used in a major study revealing the benefits of aspirin in treating heart disease. "It is emerging as an important tool in medicine," says Dorr, and one that can be deployed without the considerable costs and risks of a large clinical trial...
...Also, the meta-politics of The Dead movement focus on this sense of creating what is not there, of making a better world. There is a feeling of the virtuality of nirvana that permeates many Dead concerts," Boone says...