Word: postmodernity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professors and a Bunting Fellow read selected passages from "Postmodern" Legal Feminism," a collection of essays by the late professor of the New England School of Law who was fatally stabbed last year...
...Philip Glass met Phil Spector . . . well, they'd probably just stare at each other. But it's conceivable that the composer and the pop mogul might collaborate on a 73-minute 12-second postmodern song cycle you could dance or dream to. That's the symphonic rock album Moodfood, by the British duo MOODSWINGS (percussionist J.F.T. Hood and producer Grant Showbiz). The set punctuates its disco-liturgical luxuriance with ethereal vocals by Chrissie Hynde and a pulsar guitar solo by Jeff Beck. Mixing rap and classical and everything in between -- and then remixing it to suggest a Top 40 radio...
...advent of the 1990s saw more wonderful forms of dirty chortling, with the late-night game show "Sticky Moments" becoming a cult hit. Postmodern laughter and applause erupt as our unbelievably camp host mises onto stage in bondage gear. The leading contestants, having answered questions like "How long is this sausage?," win their prize by consuming as much ice-cream as possible in one minute. Their moment of stickiness climaxes with a tacky award of no value...
...Fourth Wall radically departs from Gurney's typical romantic comedy. Straying from the genre which bore such successes as The Dining Room and Love Letters, Gurney ventures into the world of the postmodern...
...Fourth Wall may not be a masterpiece but it does further the postmodern tradition, signifying a personal breakthrough for A.R. Gurney...