Word: deconstructing
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...Ponnudorai's style is to deconstruct a hackneyed standard, reassemble the parts in startlingly creative ways, and then perform it with a passion that nobody has previously dared. Thus the campfire dirge Five Hundred Miles becomes a spine-tingling R&B ballad, dripping with anguish. The Beatles' chirpy Can't Buy Me Love is transformed into a complex jazz exercise, incorporating some of the Karnatakan rhythmic phrases of Ponnudorai's South Indian ancestry. The Cascades' saccharine Rhythm of the Rain metamorphoses into the purest Burt Bacharach, with unexpected chord changes and lush melodic lines...
...heard you've got the SDC job,' " he recalls. "I said, 'I must check my e-mail; I haven't heard about that.'" More certain is that his next work for ADT will hit the spot. To be called G, it looks to deconstruct the romantic ballet Giselle, and one can foresee his heartbroken peasant girl being transported to the moonlit land of Wilis with maximum G force...
...behaviors catch on in society. Gladwell, whom the Heath brothers revere, writes about "the stickiness factor" but never fully fleshes out what makes an idea sticky. That's where Chip and Dan come in. Finding insight in fields as disparate as psychology, politics, screenwriting, economics, folklore and epidemiology, they deconstruct sticky ideas--from Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign classic "It's the economy, stupid" to the way Jane Elliott taught the civil rights movement to third-graders in an all-white Iowa town (see next page). At the same time, they lay out a blueprint for engineering your own sticky...
...Only in the nineteenth century did elites try to make [Shake-speare] something for highbrows.” One worry seems to be that pop culture will also soon be rarified on the grounds that most people don’t possess the analytical tools to deconstruct its cultural and social intricacies.But David F. Hill ’06, who is currently in Stevens’ “Modern Crime Narratives” asserts students’ autonomy against academic criticism: “You can always reject the analysis. You’ve read it, you enjoy...
...senior year at Harvard, I must say I’ve actually learned the most from the very clubs I want to deconstruct. Final clubs have taught me that simply because they are male, my friends and classmates deserve eight huge mansions in Harvard Square. Final clubs have taught me that no matter how hard I work, I will never have access to connections that my male friends do. They’ve taught me that I don’t deserve a social space of my own in which I can feel truly safe. They’ve taught...