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Surely the French deconstructionist Michel Foucault must be deployed. Football enacts the Foucaultian paradigm wherein all actions, even involuntary motions or "fakes" or failures (quarterback sacked), coalesce in meaning, and everything that the game organizes in the way of objects, rites, customs (the superstitious butt slapping, the narcissistically erotic Bob Fosse touchdown dances) constitutes a coherent whole--the game lui-meme. Foucault saw pro football as the quintessential mutation of the Classical quadrilateral of language into the Modern anthropological quadrilateral. Actually, he didn't. But it amuses me to think he might have. Ha ha, Boomer Esiason...
...children maintain a death watch, she relives every minute of that fateful weekend and encounters snippets of memory from other points in her life that flesh out the affair's consequences. In her powerful third novel Susan Minot mesmerizes with her convincing evocation of Lord's final semiconscious state, wherein time and place crisscross, the lines between real and imagined blur, and the difference between resignation and regret is indistinguishable...
...worthy of John Klees in all its incarnations--whether doing tongues (as Lavinia), being clueless (Juliet) or portraying Gen X Ophelia drowning herself in a cup of water. When not occupied with his feminine side, Green breaks down the traditional audience/performer boundaries by involving everyone in a "workshoping Ophelia" wherein the crowd chants the various mantras of her id, ego and superego in preparation for her dramatic demise. If there is a prop to be used, Green's got it and is doing his damnedest to involve the audience members as well...
...system that has led to banks facing more than $600 billion in bad or doubtful debt. But Prime Minister Hashimoto and top Japanese financial officials are in "stimulus package" mode, not "major restructuring" mode. As one young Japanese entrepreneur told me, if the trade negotiators craft a plan wherein no one is required to take responsibility for the flaws in the Japanese economic structure, "we'll do it." Otherwise, it is likely that nothing much will happen in terms of change...
...sometimes fatal precocity of the young in Finnegan's marginal world. H.L. Mencken had the American masses down as the "booboisie," hopelessly straight and dull and dumb. Finnegan catches perfectly the way ordinary America today may pass through some moral looking glass into a devouring universal consumers' bazaar wherein the remotest locales sell the fanciest drugs and perversions, and the minds of the young, ungrounded by their absent parents' experience or protection, become unrecognizably weird. Mindy, a model-pretty 17-year-old and former Nazi Low Rider gone over to the Sharps, nonetheless reports that her heroes--besides Alicia Silverstone...