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...very risky version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus blew across the Loeb Mainstage last weekend, featuring eerie music, shocking slideshows, vinyl costumes, and a set that looked like a construction site. Fortunately, more than enough talent and Shakespearean savvy were poured into this post-modern production to make all the creative risks...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: A Risky 'Coriolanus' Pays Off | 10/31/1996 | See Source »

Showing her witty fashion sense, local flautist Paula Robison modelled a sassy red sequined gown and offered the delicious post-modern program of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" she had transcribed for flute. Robison enchanted a predominantly upper-crust Back Bay audience on Sunday at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum with her effervescent and joyful presence...

Author: By Elisabetta A. Coletti, | Title: Flautist's Fusion Redux of "Seasons" A Success | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

...hard to know with how much irony "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" was originally meant. At times, the film does have a sort of post-modern self-consciousness, such as when a merry mechanic sings that he can't stand singing and that he much prefers movies without singing, or in the final shot of the gas station marquis, which reads not "Cherbourg" but "Cherbourgeosie". Luckilly, theoretical issues like these cannot weigh down this proudly frothy film. Demy's Cherbourg was nearly lost to this world when the original negatives were damaged and the prints all faded to unintelligablity--his widow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Demy's Restored 'Umbrellas' is a Campy Delight | 7/2/1996 | See Source »

When a group of alumni moved to prevent the construction of the Humanities Quad in place of the Freshman Union this year, some reminisced wistfully about a time of architectural charm at Harvard, before hyper-professional, post-modern buildings dotted the campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Built on Site of Dana Palmer House | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

Baal is democratic. Baal is hip. Baal ispre-modern. Baal is post-modern. Polytheism ismaking a comeback, and Harvard cannot afford to beleft behind while the choice gods are swept up.Join the march into the future: go out, grab anidol, get some incense, burn your thesis, and havesome fun. We have nothing to lose but our chains.We have a world...

Author: By Jim C. Murray, | Title: groovy train | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

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