Word: postmodernity
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...standard fare when bringing together a number of alpha-females and -males into the same extremely cramped workspace, such an analysis would be ill-considered, to say the least. We here at the magazine instead consider such behavior to be the successor to existential crisis in the postmodern milieu. Clearly, we find ourselves trying to wrap our minds around a difficult, nay, hot-buttony issue...
...cornflakes, even after 50 years. All of Schulz's would-be successors flamed out. Berke Breathed was brilliant in "Bloom County" for a while, then retreated from the strip after an accident and could never recapture the magic with his next try, "Outland." "Calvin and Hobbes," surely the postmodern offspring of Lucy and Charlie Brown, delighted (Schulz himself was a fan) until Bill Waterson ran out of ideas and mercifully shut the thing down. Gary Trudeau tried taking a long break from "Doonesbury," only to return to find that, despite the occasional hilarious essay, he'd left his sense...
...dream if only because its Republicans seem so enamored of George Bush--not the callow young Bush running for President but the nostalgia-tinged older Bush who already served. South Carolina gave President Bush his second highest vote percentage in 1992, so when he paid a visit to the postmodern BMW factory near the town of Greer last week, he was introduced as "our hero." Speaker after speaker hammered Clinton for moral and ethical depredations, the crowd cheered wildly, and Bush took the stage grinning. "We have been put through a terrible, slimy ordeal," he said. The crowd went wild...
...news when the brightest star of postmodern dance has an opening, but this premiere at the New York City Ballet fails to catch fire. Tharp's twitchy, fidgety signature moves are swamped by Beethoven's overwhelming dance rhythms. Making a ballet to the Seventh Symphony, it seems, is like turning Hamlet into an opera: good enough just isn't good enough...
...place like Harvard, however, [where types] of postmodern theory has influenced the academy, there are still plenty of traditional English classes," he says...