Word: modish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soaked environment. "By embracing the intensity of empty value at the core of mass-media representation," claims Lisa Phillips in her catalog essay, "only then can the perennial challenge be met of finding and constructing significant meaning in the midst of declining values for images and words." This is modish nonsense. What becomes more obvious with each passing year of postmodernism is that art's relation to mass media has become an aesthetic blind alley and that only an enhanced sense of the world's concreteness -- opposing the flimflam of manipulation that gets spun about it -- is likely to redeem...
...fading madam who still has jewelry to sell. Pedicab drivers offer Western passengers "beautiful young girls," while street entrepreneurs compete to buy dollars at several times the official (100 to 1) rate. In the black market along Nguyen Hue Street, a few trendsetters wearing body shirts, designer jeans and modish sunglasses wander among stalls crammed with the latest in color TVs and stereo systems...
Amis introduces a contrasting character named Martin Amis, an English writer. He is everything that Self is not: disciplined, patient, and well read. He is also a modish literary distraction from technical problems inherent in plotless first-person narratives. Will Self ever direct a movie? Will he ever finish reading Animal Farm? Will the manna ever stop falling? The answers matter little, since Amis' buffoon is at his best when he is doing his worst...
...Meanwhile, the more glittering versions of modish androgyny continue to reflect what we does in fantasy. Many of us seem to feel that the most erotic condition of all could not be that of any man or woman, or of any child, or of a human being with two sexes, but that of a very young and effeminate male angel...Such a being may give and take a guiltless delight, wield limitless sexual power without sexual politics, feel all the pleasures of sex with none of the personal risks, can never grow up, never get wise, and never grow...
...athletes in Chariots of Fire jogged along the beach to its inspirited pulse, and Jennifer Beals went head over heels for its driving beat in Flashdance. Rock groups love its modish, high-tech tones, and jazzmen such as Oscar Peterson and Herbie Hancock have found its versatility irresistible. Laurie Anderson, the avant-garde performance artist, colored her United States, PartsI-IV with its plaintive, other-worldly resonance, and its dark bass notes lurk menacingly in the minimalist scores of Composer Philip Glass...