Word: post-modern
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...insistence on the noted French film scholar, linguist and angler Jean-Claude Robespierre that the tribe is "a collective manifestation of the Weltan-Schauung of the post-modern condition of the explosion of semiotic coherence' seems to be not so much an insightful, engaged comment as the deluded, syphilitic ravings of a irreparably damaged mind...
...opposite extreme, informing the unsuspecting Henry that a baby is expected, and that be can pick it up at the hospital as soon as the marriage license is complete. That act of creation is not only involuntary, but surprising and unwelcome. His abberent creation is the expression of post-modern alienation from other like creatures, parodied brilliantly by Lynch...
...only black choreographer to resist the aesthetic dominance of the late, great Alvin Ailey, whose masterworks were mostly composed to black music and whose themes were rooted in African-American history. The austere, abstract work of Ralph Lemon, 42, for example, owes a clear visual debt to such white Post-modern experimentalists as Meredith Monk and Trisha Brown. With their sense of order and symmetry, Lemon's dances even resemble the plotless ballets of George Balanchine, in spirit if not vocabulary. When a friend in Denver challenged Lemon to create a piece with a black theme, Lemon demurred...
Rock stars are allowed such indulgences, I suppose. After all, he does pull in huge crowds, and for good reason. But above all, those crowds come for the music. I don't think he'd draw 20,000 for a poetry reading or a debate on post-modern existentialism...
...company line of political rectitude. Besides, a Stillman movie delights because it shows its men-about-town to be just as estranged as any deli clerk or Harlem youth. And how eager they all are for love -- as eager as any downtown lesbians. Barcelona is just that kind of post-modern romance: a G.O.P. Fish...