Word: postmodernized
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...best guess is that Lawrence, Reeves, et al. get away with Constantine precisely because it is so flagrantly wrong. It patches together myth, history, and fiction with such postmodern glee that no single injury or injustice in its plotline piracies can be found...
Here are a couple of examples. The friend of mine who just came back from Tanzania wrote in an e-mail that “…being stuck in a box with nothing but the BBC makes for a postmodern haven that is, at moments, unfulfilling. I fear I’ve also come to the realization that Cambridge, Mass. is a better place to study Africa than the continent itself, unless one really knows what s/he is doing. I’m afraid I feel guilty enough about receiving school credit for the classes I took this...
...best guess is that Lawrence, Reeves, et al. get away with Constantine precisely because it is so flagrantly wrong. It patches together myth, history, and fiction with such postmodern glee that no single injury or injustice in its plotline piracies can be found...
...persecution may have marauded the stage during the Dunster House Opera Society’s (DHO) rendition of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide (which ended its run in Dunster Dining Hall this weekend), but in the end, love and wisdom ruled the day. In a production of lovely postmodern excess reminiscent of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge , the actors shone, the songs soared, and the audience was left bubbling with enjoyment after watching the story of an extra enamored with a movie star named Cundegonde...
...might speculate about the glory that Candide might attain if presented as a full Broadway production, it was easy to appreciate the DHO’s resourceful and impressive production. This isn’t just Voltaire’s satire—it is a satire for the postmodern, Hollywood world...