Word: postmodernity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evident even when they were supposed to be portraying Mamet's rage and angst. As a result, at least one joke--the excessive use of expletives in Mamet's plays--lost its bite. Nonetheless, "Speed-the-Play," as written, works as a mordantly funny critique of over-the-top postmodern theater...
...trilogy. All told, he's responsible for four of the 20 highest-grossing movies in film history. Not that all his films have been smashes: Lucasfilm was responsible for the infamous Howard the Duck, as well as the more recent and not quite as spectacularly awful Radioland Murders, a postmodern screwball that Lucas describes as "an experiment in really fast-paced comedy. It failed," he readily admits. "But I like doing that--I like pushing the language of film to see where the limits...
...white fenced cupola--strikingly picturesque beside the postmodern architecture of the Carpenter Center--is perched atop the center...
Perched atop the Barker Center for the Humanities is a white fenced cupola, strikingly picturesque beside the postmodern architecture of the Carpenter Center. According to Randall, the new cupola echoes a feature of the original plans of the old Union. Randall, who also worked on the restoration of Matthews Hall, said renovating the Barker Center has been a fulfilling experience...
...time periods and their respective plots. As the modern-day scholars try to deduce what was going on at Sidley Park in the 19th century, the audience is simultaneously watching that plot as it is carried out. Issues of truth, knowledge, accuracy and relativism get very complicated and, well, postmodern. All of which is stimulating, analytically speaking, but it can get dizzying as theater. Thankfully, there is enough good, old-fashioned sexual intrigue in both plots to keep the audience interested, even when the verbal dueling gets ridiculously complex. The script is also full of vicious one-liners. When...