Word: postmoderns
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...this sounds a little bit like “Thriller,” well, it should: the band is clearly referencing the milestone Michael Jackson video, falling somewhere between pastiche and parody. The self-conscious (dare I say postmodern?) cannibalism of such elements makes for an interesting although not thoroughly engrossing video. While they can’t match the King of Pop visually, they’re musically so far ahead of the curve that it doesn’t matter...
...spiritual realm painted on an operatic scale, where the ancestral rainbow serpent forges the land, a river of fairy people, the yinbirras, rushes tsunami-like through the bush, and a cyclone hits the coast as an act of payback. Wright is Proustian in her love of detail but postmodern in her playfulness: " 'Where hid reality?' Elias asked in the Pricklebush, yet who could say what existed in one ordinary coastal town plonked at the top of the nation...
...Iraq is about 21st century issues, like terrorism and extremist Islam. The very survival of a nation hangs in the balance. It is a murky battlefield, where combatants are hard to identify and alliances shift constantly, so nothing and nobody are predictable. Even the weapons are postmodern: improvised explosive devices, car bombs, suicide bombers. And the Iraq war is far deadlier; on almost any given day, casualty figures in Baghdad alone dwarf those in Lebanon and Israel combined. At the house TIME uses as its base in Baghdad, our staff of 25 Iraqis snort disdainfully as news broadcasters announce...
Reconciling Pixar's postmodern culture with the Disney tradition seems tough. But if high-tech Lightning McQueen could find his destiny in retro Radiator Springs, why can't Lasseter find a way to turn yesterday into tomorrow at Disney? He's surely shown opposites can attract in his wonderful new film. Existing both in turbo-charged today and the gentler '50s, straddling the realms of Pixar styling and old Disney heart, this new-model Cars is an instant classic...
...Tale of Two Cities,” which ran in Radcliffe Yard from May 5 to 7. Taking its cues more from “Shrek” than from Dickens, the play worked as both a comedic children’s show and a delightful postmodern farce. The play, co-directed by Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 and Jess R. Burkle ’06, utilized an amusing frame narrative, beginning with a woman’s (Birnbaum) visit to a French barber, Mr. Guillotine (Burkle). In this version, written by Adam V. Cline...