Word: postmodernism
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...election campaign, for example, Davis violated one of the few rules of postmodern politics. Instead of staying out of the opposing party's primary, he invaded it by spending an estimated $10 million on ads denigrating the more moderate--and therefore more threatening--candidate, former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, who eventually lost to an inexperienced conservative, William Simon. "The general election was the nastiest ever," says Dan Shnur, a Republican political consultant. "More money was spent and a smaller percentage of people voted than in any gubernatorial election in state history...
...course, it is not very nice to want to keep interesting, helpful things to oneself, even though there is something inherently delightful in taunting I-know-something-you-don’t-know—the best restaurant in town, a cool dive bar, an obscure, postmodern Croatian novel. As with any secret, though, there is immense desire to spill it, hence the high price of a secret. Once, if, you decide to share, you want to be claimed as the true bearer of the earth-shattering insight. And nothing is worse than sharing a secret that everyone already knows...
...election campaign, for example, Davis violated one of the few rules of postmodern politics. Instead of staying out of the opposing party's primary, he invaded it by spending an estimated $10 million on ads denigrating the more moderate-and therefore more threatening-candidate, former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, who eventually lost to an inexperienced conservative, William Simon. "The general election was the nastiest ever," says Dan Shnur, a Republican political consultant. "More money was spent and a smaller percentage of people voted than in any gubernatorial election in state history...
...strange group gave me a so-called “ticket” (which was little more than an illegible message on pink stationery) and directed me to a contact in the multi-ethnic town of Tuzla. There I found a man named Fra Peter in the postmodern hellishness of Tuzla’s Franciscan stronghold, a concrete building replete with bomb-proof glass and giant iron gates that obscure passers-by’s view of the many statues of St. Francis, Mary and Jesus inside the immaculate garden. The scribbles-on-pink won me a proper...
...bigger, and with its beauty and sheer cool, it can drink from a bottomless well of international affection. But precisely because we all love Italy so much, shouldn't Europe's leaders at least shake their heads and wag their fingers at the Berlusconisti? Of course they should, but postmodern man should also rediscover the art of the elegant rejoinder. Benjamin Disraeli, on the receiving end of an anti-Semitic slur in the British Parliament, had this to say: "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honorable Gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island...