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McGregor's most challenging material, however, has been reserved for his own London-based troupe, Wayne McGregor Random Dance. Founded in 1992, Random astounds audiences with the sheer strangeness of his vision. A computer buff from an early age, McGregor has used Poser software (originally designed for gamers) to generate movement, and incorporated ideas like algorithms and cognitive mapping into his work. In Sulphur 16 (1998), his dancers performed among spectral computer-generated figures, as if in a human-scale chess game. In Nemesis (2002), inspired in part by insect behavior, his dancers dueled with prosthetic steel arm extensions...
...about motives and results, even about the sanity of its practitioners. But Tony Blair's handover of the British premiership to Gordon Brown, a transition long anticipated and heavily choreographed, unexpectedly raised the one kind of question that never finds its way onto a parliamentary order paper: a metaphysical poser. How can power - granted by voters, defined by laws, enjoyed and exercised for 10 years - slip away so easily, almost as if it had never existed? The question hovered above a grizzled Prime Minister Blair as he faced Members of Parliament one last time and accompanied a rejuvenated Prime Minister...
...Haven, I will wear Crimson at the game this year. Only two months at Harvard changed three years of cheering for Yale at The Game, longer than most Yale juniors. Some might say I have betrayed my loyalties. Sure, I am a poser. I jumped on the bandwagon, but it is better than rooting for a losing team year after year in the opposition’s home...
...most interesting discoveries was that not all kids who stereotypically should have been favoring upturned collars and purple shirts actually did. One post from a Harvard student states, “Popped collars are for poser deusches [sic], I don’t care what class you’re in. Most days I’m in a hoodie and a fucking baseball cap…Also, my son will kick your son’s ass everyday, steal his lunch money, then pay him with it to do his homework. He’ll have good lineage like...
...element of his cross-over commercial appeal. 8 Mile imagines a fantasy world in which Rabbit is a member of an oppressed white minority, with a bullying black boss intent on victimizing his conscientious young employee. Cheddar Bob, Rabbit’s only white friend, is a buffoonish poser who accidentally shoots himself in an attempt to prove his “street cred” in a brawl against the “Free World” rappers. The film is also disappointingly conventional in its depiction of sex and race: even as a member of the supposed white...