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...three-way freeway between Hal Elujah, Stella Virgin and Brook Werm. Two men, one woman? Three men? One man, two women (assuming that if women in the Hasty Pudding show are men, then men are women)? Stella Virgin (Robert Schlesinger '00) is a dangerously subversive character, a postmodern repetition of the much-parodied "White House intern" figure. Doused in blush and armed with a lolli (ta)pop, Schlesinger's cotton candy-cum-phallus act is not very sexy, but still a marked improvement over Monica...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Hasty Pudding Rushmores Through History of America | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

Calling the measure "postmodern censorship," Silverglate said that the HLS faculty passed it not as a solution to legitimate claims, but in reaction to political disputes...

Author: By Erin L. Sheley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Silverglate, Dershowitz Debate Campus Speech, Harassment Rules | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...thesis surpasses all others with 192 pages of pure writing. There are other texts in the 200 to 300 page range, but diagrams and pictures unfairly pad these theses. Jeremy Kleiner '98 wrote the epic, "Spectacles: Transparency, Representation, and Politics in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French Revolution, Situationism, and Postmodern Thought." The 15-word title appropriately introduces the 70,000-word document...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...punctuation, typical of all the poems in Elegy for the Departure, as well as his readiness to disregard physical categories (e.g. "a grain of water," "a chord of light"). Through such inverted interest in the elements, Herbert recalls the most ancient pre-Socratic philosophers and simultaneously makes his postmodern move, boldly taking language to the brink of obfuscation in order to make the metaphorical point. Herbert's own oblique language is captured in the phrase "forgotten leafy speech," an image which charms with the power of forgotten myth, an alibi against any accusations po-mo linguistic pretension. By recalling sleep...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zbigniew H. Dies, a Master | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...HOME: Michael Graves, postmodern architect, designer of the Portland Building in Oregon and the Crooks House in Indiana, has a new feather in his cap: availability at Target. The discount chain commissioned the architect to create a line of housewares after working with him on the restoration of the Washington Monument, which it's partly funding. He brought forth such potential budget wedding gifts as a toaster, kitchen utensils, a patio set and an ice bucket. Next: Issey Miyake redoes the Big Gulp for 7-Eleven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aisle Of Style | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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