Word: postmodern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong--I'm not saying that I am any less guilty than the next person of getting really sententious about stupidity. And Harvard, thankfully, is the ideal setting to let your mind and vocal cords wander into the postmodern recesses of the human condition, before you get out of here and have to deal with things like does the toaster work and paying the insurance bill and taking the car to the Jiffy Lube...
...Party) for two decades, brings to his work the same anti-Thatcher animus that energizes much of today's British cinema. But unlike Laundrette and the rest, High Hopes derives much of its energy and some of its best comic strokes from a conscious, open acknowledgment that to be postmodern is also to be post-Marxist. In a time when people rise and fall freely, unhindered by traditional class structures, they become, according to Leigh, quite unhinged by their inability to locate themselves morally or emotionally on a sturdy social ladder...
...WAITS: BIG TIME (Island). The raucous and funny low-life reveries of rock's only postmodern beatnik...
...WAITS: BIG TIME (Island). The raucous low-life reveries of rock's only postmodern beatnik. Taken from the sound track of Waits' concert film...
...postmodern randomness of the the quintessential American philosopher, Reebok is trying to address not only our need to buy any particular brand of ads is meant to stress individuality and uniqueness, as does Emerson's philosophy. But the ads distort that philosophy by implying that Emersonian self reliance can be found in, of all things, sneakers...