Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distant philosophical cousin to kissing up to the 18-to-34 demographic. This led to a round of thumb sucking in the media's tonier precincts about MOMA's mission in a postmodern world. Is there such a thing as contemporary modernism? How does one resolve the paradox of an institutionalized avant-garde? Couldn't somebody else's will have made them get rid of those silly Dalis? While for me personally the debate didn't cut quite as close to the bone as did the fuss over Riley Weston, it did serve to remind me that I have...
...Glee Club stands apart from many of Harvard's singing groups because of its size, its long history and the fact that it is all-male. But the group faces something of a paradox: while many consider its musical quality better than ever, some members say its spirit is misunderstood on campus...
...serious writer. The Vampire Armand, I realized, has to be the literary equivalent of soft-core pornography. While none of the sex is gratuitous, it is still so prevalent that it overshadows the plot and weakens attempted interjections of the story amid the sex. Rice catches herself in a paradox--bringing readers in with the skillful language of her sex scenes and then losing their interest when she uses that writing for non-sexual descriptions. For the most part, sex wins over plot in terms of sheer frequency of occurrence. While it is doubtful that Armand might ever have found...
Williams, the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights and On Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race, discussed the recent appearance of Oprah Winfrey on the cover of Vogue to illustrate the difficulties that come from simplifying the identity of black women...
...which points to a paradox. Home schooling can provide a broadly accepted, large-scale alternative to the public schools, or it can provide a true sanctuary from the wider culture. But it cannot do both, because the more attractive the movement becomes to children in the public schools, the more it will start to resemble them. Warehouse No. 2 may look like evidence that home schooling is eclipsing public education in the city of Wichita. Then again, it could be the other way around...