Word: postmodern
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Over the Columbia River, on a high desert ridge, the world's largest wind farm sprawls across 50 sq. mi. of Oregon and Washington. When the last of its 460 turbines are installed, this postmodern power plant will offer clean electricity to 70,000 homes and businesses. Every month hundreds of tourists come to gawk at its fiber-glass blades, twirling with balletic grace atop 160-ft. poles. "People are in awe of wind power," says Anne Walsh, community-relations manager of the Stateline Energy Center...
...preview screenings, men cheer the stunts (see Vin outpace an avalanche on a snowboard!) while young women whoop and holler every time Diesel reveals his tattooed chest--which is frequently. The film explicitly sets up Diesel as the new postmodern Bond by killing off a nameless spy wearing a tux in the first scene. A sequel is already in the works...
...rock's new ruling class. Never mind that none of the would-be rock revivalists has yet broken through the platinum sales mark. As for the Hives themselves, the hype surrounding them is only mildly outlandish. They are not yet a great band, but their blistering punk and postmodern pranks are huge fun. If rock is going to make a fresh imprint on the culture, it might just do it with a Swedish accent...
...today. We know the movie will rock the box office and, for various reasons, its sheer success will leave filmmakers, audiences and oblivious film executives breathless, clinging to their armrests, with all the power of an angry storm. The trailer alone, with its eye-popping effects, sleek and postmodern world and hot-as-hell, upside-down kiss between Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man/Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, is enough to leave us all drooling for more. What the trailer establishes from the outset is that Spider-Man is the man, hands-down...
...Grip" uses the 1950s crime, horror and sci-fi genre comicbooks as the guide for a new, postmodern comix narrative. Hernandez sets the tone by beginning each of the five issues with a full-page mock cover of a 10-cent pulp book: "Grip of Fear," "Grippingly Romantic Western Mystery," etc. But once inside, the rules have clearly changed. Freaks, unrepentant violence, monsters and sex have been jumbled into a dizzy story that sends up the genres it revels in as much as it honors them...