Word: postmodern
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This thought was not entirely revelatory. My friends had long been subjected to lengthy descriptions of the restaurants I would some day open. They had heard the amateur, now discarded plans of my initial dreaming: the sushi bar built over a tank of live fish (how postmodern!); the dumpling restaurant with a twist, where mac and cheese or duck l’orange would be served up in crisp wonton wrappers or savory shumai shells (titled, for its brief reign in theoretical existence, “Dim Sumthing Else”). A few lucky listeners had even become privy...
...evident quickly to the standing-room only crowd in Sever Hall last night that watched novelist Jonathan Franzen face English professor James Wood, who has been one of his toughest critics. Wood, who is also a staff writer for The New Yorker, is noted for his censure of the postmodern social novel, which he termed the “contemporary American novel in its big triumphalist form” in a 2001 review of Franzen’s novel “The Corrections.” But at the event yesterday, Wood had little but kindness for his longtime...
...wrong word. Perry's shows are contradictorily and simultaneously rude, forgiving, uplifting, demeaning. Comedy will get churning wildly, then stop in its tracks for a confession of spousal or child abuse. Laugh-cry, empathize-criticize: the mood changes so rapidly in these anachronistic exhibitions that they can seem defiantly postmodern...
Herself the author of books on family law, comparative legal traditions and Eleanor Roosevelt, Glendon says that like many Catholic academics she's long followed the writings of the man formerly known as Professor Ratzinger. "He speaks frankly to the deep-seated needs and desires of modern and postmodern men and women," she says. "He's not afraid of confronting the questions that people ask themselves in the middle of the night...
...contemporary creative condition. Today’s music scene is one in which belief in the revolutionary potential of a song is viewed as an anachronistic pipedream and faith in rockstardom as a transcendent force is regarded as both naïve and haplessly nostalgic. This thoroughly postmodern sentiment is both the fate and the challenge of the up-and-coming artist. How can today’s artist feel comfortable being creative knowing that their music will inevitably fall short of the highs reached by a century’s worth of pop music?The title of Toronto band...