Word: postmodernity
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Crossan was deep into what might be called the postmodern state of Bible studies. Experts had long considered sources for the Gospels undreamed of by Luther: passages from Luke and Matthew, for instance, that did not reflect the earlier written Mark but corresponded to one another were ascribed to a document known as Q, a bare-bones collection of sayings. In the 1980s, radicals took a large step farther. They suggested that only Q and similarly minimalist early documents, real and notional, might constitute authentic reporting; the rest of the Gospels was mostly tacked-on religious revisionism...
...great if the material is fatally flawed. You have to have the footage. And a bad editor can ruin a good film." That's something Schoonmaker would not be capable of. Her collaborations with Scorsese, including Raging Bull, GoodFellas and Casino, have pushed the editing craft into a postmodern, almost hallucinogenic art. They are what films...
This juxtaposition prompts a number of related observations. One: even as it promised reform, the television industry was up to its old tricks, pumping out sleaze right under the President's nose (in a sort of postmodern, electronic sense). Two: Montel's show could be read as an inadvertent discourse on the differing tastes and points of view that will make a coherent ratings system for TV so maddeningly difficult to implement. And three: this writer was looking for a way to watch TV and call it work...
...However, such ideological motivation is inevitably a risky affair. On the systemic front, it risks our nonprofit status and potentially alienates volunteers. (I know that I constantly oscillated between educating and offending many of the more "moderate" volunteers at my own PBH committee). Yet, even more importantly, in our postmodern, market-driven age there are few students willing to privilege any structured account of social or economic oppression, and far fewer individuals capable of teaching...
...Izquierdo--the endless savagery inflicted on her body and mind, or the stubborn inaction of the New York City agencies that were repeatedly informed of her peril. But while the murder of Elisa by her mother is appalling, it is hardly unexpected. In the death zones of America's postmodern ghetto, stripped of jobs and human services and sanitation, plagued by AIDS, tuberculosis, pediatric asthma and endemic clinical depression, largely abandoned by American physicians and devoid of the psychiatric services familiar in most middle-class communities, deaths like these are part of a predictable scenario...