Word: paradoxity
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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...
...intelligent in print. In these comic essays (most from the New Yorker), the voice is often that of the old stand-up Steve: a fellow less cool, less together--and thus funnier--than he thinks he is. Martin takes inspiration from prescription bottles, the Schrodinger's cat paradox and Marlon Brando on Larry King Live. The little gems come at a hefty price--87[cents] each ($1.17 in Canada!)--but are worth it for their expectation-defying musings on philosophers, paparazzi and the word underpants. This is high-wire humor, as pure as the drivel snow...
...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...