Word: post-modern
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...tenderness hasn't softened him. A creep shakes him down, and he pokes a chopstick in the guy's eye. Nishi is not post-modern so much as post-mortem. Stick a gun in his face?he has no reaction. Go ahead and shoot, his look says. I'm dead already. Oblivion is the embrace he seeks, for himself and his wife. At the end, they sit on the beach; she thanks him "for everything," and he shoots them both dead...
...somewhere in the wreckage of the two World Wars, and the chilling, post-modern pessimism that came after, great art became hard to come by. That was when people started telling us that "greatness" in art is a subjective business, culturally constructed and so forth, and this neat device let them pretend that (save me your howls of anguish) Toni Morrison deserves a Nobel Prize in literature, or that Jackson Pollock's paint-spattered canvases are 20th century versions of the Mona Lisa, or that Elton John deserves a knighthood...
Poetry readings at Harvard can be high profile events. Two weeks ago, the usual audience of corduroyed intellectuals and well-dressed Cambridge ladies buzzed in anticipation as John Ashbery '49-Pulitzer Prize winner, post-modern poster boy, darling of Harold Bloom and Helen Vendler-took to the stage in a reading sponsored by the Grolier Poetry Book Shop and the Harvard University Art Museums...
...Another father, Warren L. Maye, said, "It was exciting, enthusiastic. I enjoyed it. It was a mixture of tradition and innovation that reflects an African-American approach to post-modern...
...care? No. I didn't care back then, and I don't care now. Go ahead, arch those eyebrows. Make fun of me with your post-modern metaphysical over-analytical gibberish. Tell me exactly how many steps backwards I am setting the feminist movement with my Beatles-esque boy-band adoration. It's high time that someone took a stand. So, with my knock-out yellow halter top, glittery eye shadow and precious teddy bear, I will proudly stand up. I will be your teenybopper...