Word: paradoxical
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...always wonderful; 3) the world is round and time is circular; human nature is constant, but 4) may be damaged--or what is worse, humiliated--by novelties, which (like '70s neckties or television in any decade) may have about them an aura of imbecility, leading to 5) the Paradox of Retrograde Progress. Television is a Faustian bargain (a dazzling technology that induces dullness and even moronism), and the Internet has the same ominous tendencies. It is not a bad idea to mistrust the omnivorous vulgarity of innovation, even its (paradoxical) death instinct. Novelty, in its pointless ingenuity, keeps slaying itself...
...Hell’s Winter,” to steer clear of his mental gold mine of lyrical ultraviolence is confusing. He sounds uncomfortable wading into unfamiliar waters. “Hell’s Winter”, the follow-up to 2002’s titular paradox “Movies for the Blind,” is a move away from the gleeful aggression that has characterized his earlier work. Instead he steps into the well-worn treads of sensitive indie-rap, dropping his most polished and listenable album to date...
Lepore, who also teaches the fall semester core course Historical Study B-38: “Liberty and Slavery: The History of an American Paradox,” will speak about the book today at 3 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store on 1256 Mass...
...meant to make Allen the enemy of politics as usual. But it's a rough message to send to Hillary--or Condi Rice or any other woman who will have to rely on politics as usual, not a contrived TV plot, to become President. And who faces the sexist paradox: if you get ahead in party politics, you must be a bitch, a lesbian ... a man. If not, then you're too womanly--too weak--to lead the free world. For all its you-go-girlness, what kind of woman President does Commander in Chief say America wants...
...lead cop, Vincke (Koen De Bouw), is almost as interesting as Ledda, acting out the familiar Dostoyevskian paradox of the policeman who instinctively identifies with the criminal he is pursuing. He is also embroiled in a jurisdictional dispute over the case, which frustrates his pursuit of it. He's a busy guy, our Vincke, always in danger of losing the cool reasonableness that, because it matches Ledda's calm but murderous inventiveness, is his largest strength...