Word: post-modern
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...this 2hr.18min. musical tragedy a post-modern masterpiece or a post-musical mess? The opinion of Besson and the Cannes jury was clear enough. So was that of the unimpressed, who found the film's story dramatically and socially inane, its songs lacking in melody or variety, its jittery camerawork in need of a megadose of Ritalin...
...what, in the end, is this book? As fiction, it could simply be a musing: a sensuous, aging intellectual persona, thoroughly modern, dying of AIDS in a post-modern age. There is plenty about the mercurial politics of elite universities to sustain a deeper narrative about modernist men professing a fragmenting discipline...
Travelling by bus was depressing, stagnant and--above all--boring. I say this because I'm spoiled, and because I have a short post-modern attention span, but most of all because I am used (on many levels) to mobility. Airplanes can't be credited for inventing the metaphor or the disengaged social critic, but there's a strong connection between our intellectual movement in the world and our physical experience of travel...
...There is a generally accepted list of column topics and techniques that are considering axiomatically lame. It includes, but is not limited to, the weather, your exams, dining hall food, veiled references to your TFs, inside jokes, your grades, self-referential pats on the back, anything involving the word "post-modern," snipes at your blockmates, complaining about how miserable you are, the seasons, personal attacks against Supreme Court justices, complaining about your social life, prose obviously stolen from response papers in humanities classes, or anything involving the word "irony." Also strictly taboo is anything to do with Amtrak, airports...
...Know has had it with all the Y2K jabberjabber. Any right-minded party girl will stick close to home wrapped in Pashima, aggressively exfoliating for the following night--the ultimate, global-disaster-safe date for a post-modern throw down...