Word: transcends
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Time capsules are a literal anachronism. Invoking a kind of space-age enthusiasm, these items, which we have sent out into the world to transcend time, paradoxically end up being more retro than anything we could have intentionally conceived. Such was the case, at least a little, with the opening of "Time Boxes 2000" at Brandeis University...
...Other successful pieces similarly re-mangle distorted representations of sex as a way of recovering dignity or power. However, some artists seem unable to transcend the clichs, and their work is just as obvious as the stereotype. Many artists reiterate the woman equals doll equation without Leviten's adroitness. But Joe Fekieta, Bloody Chiclitz and Dale Kaplan use sharper instruments: humor, enigma, insight. Fekieta's grotesque pen-and-inks, each accompanied by a six-line poem, lampoon sex and relationships as often tangled and ridiculous-think lots of vines and anthropomorphic gourds. Overall, "Sex, Sexism, and Society" puts...
...Other successful pieces similarly re-mangle distorted representations of sex as a way of recovering dignity or power. However, some artists seem unable to transcend the clichs, and their work is just as obvious as the stereotype. Many artists reiterate the woman equals doll equation without Leviten's adroitness. But Joe Fekieta, Bloody Chiclitz and Dale Kaplan use sharper instruments: humor, enigma, insight. Fekieta's grotesque pen-and-inks, each accompanied by a six-line poem, lampoon sex and relationships as often tangled and ridiculous-think lots of vines and anthropomorphic gourds. Overall, "Sex, Sexism, and Society" puts...
...question that will determine this novel's fate (in the popular mind, anyway) is whether it will transcend these national bounds, or whether it will end up in the dustbin of "regional literature." I say that the dustbin is a pretty sure bet for this one. I more liked the novel than disliked it, but its author will survive in my mind mostly as a rising talent, not as a full-fledged master. For all Moth Smoke's insights, it smells of trendiness, and I suspect that it will not survive past its distinct historical setting--a setting made possible...
...objective scrutiny. He tries to account for every failing, to explore the plausibility of every belief, and his memoirs read almost as a series of complete and independent episodes. Even when he describes the Nazi officials that use his home as a barracks for their squadron, he tries to transcend his liberal prejudices against these bigoted fascists in order to discover the tenability and integrity of their system of belief...