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Pioneering Postmodernist Robert Venturi is still given to architectural wisecracks -- an ironic use of old-fashioned forms, a cartoony application of classical ornament -- but for this most important job of his career, he (and partner Denise Scott Brown) behaved just enough. The new wing can speak the decorous language of the old museum: the facade is the same limestone block; the galleries, naturally lit John Soane-ish spaces. But the design is also quietly irreverent: pilasters, above, pile up on one another like so much extruded Play-Doh, and the Tuscan columns inside are impossibly faux...
Pioneering Postmodernist Robert Venturi is still given to architectural wisecracks -- an ironic use of old-fashioned forms, a cartoony application of , classical ornament -- but for this most important job of his career, he (and partner Denise Scott Brown) behaved just enough. The new wing can speak the decorous language of the old museum: the facade is the same limestone block; the galleries, naturally lit John Soane-ish spaces. But the design is also quietly irreverent: pilasters, above, pile up on one another like so much extruded Play-Doh, and the Tuscan columns inside are impossibly faux...
...course deciding about abortion is not easy. Compromise and common ground are difficult to find on many issues. The American social contract is fluid, rapidly changing, postmodernist, just as the American gene and culture pool is turbulently new every day. Life improvises rich dilemmas, but they fly by like commercial breaks, hallucinatory, riveting, half-noticed. What is the moral authority behind a social contract so vivid and illegible? Only the zealously asserted styles of the new tribes (do this, don't do this, look a certain way, think a certain way, and that will make you all right...
...pages of this novel. Even more dispiriting, this Mr. Kundera is an author, and the book he is writing turns out to be the very one that readers of Immortality will hold in their hands. What the world scarcely needs at this moment is more self-referential fiction. The postmodernist point that art is, um, artificial has probably sunk in by now and does not require further demonstrations...
...them. University presidents have uttered public relations bromides for decades; D'Souza reacts as if he is hearing them for the first time. Too young to have lived through the Vietnam era on campus, D'Souza fails to realize that tenured professors with radical views are not solely a postmodernist phenomenon. Like the Broadway theater, liberal education always seems in peril. Luckily for D'Souza, equally constant is the off-campus demand for books direly proclaiming the end of Western Civilization courses as we knew them. Not to worry; Shakespeare will survive...