Word: postmodern
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...item, moreover, will likely reject Parfitt's claim that the best we can do is an understudy. Animating all searches for the Ark is the hope - and fear - that it will retain the unbridled divine power the Old Testament describes. What would such a wonder look like in our postmodern world? What might it do? Parfitt's passionately crafted new theory, like his first, could eventually be proven right. But if so, unlike the fiction in the movies, it would deny us an explosive resolution...
...Palazzo. Contemporary models include the Ferrari driven by Michael Schumacher when he clinched the company's fifth consecutive Formula One Championship in 2003, and the Ducati Desmosedici motorbike that bore Australian Casey Stoner to victory at the 2007 MotoGP World Championship. But television has acquainted us with these streamlined, postmodern missiles; more precious is the chance to see the Fiat that won the 1907 French Grand Prix. Its frame now seems impossibly frail, but in their time, vehicles like this prompted the founder of Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, to exult that racing cars were more "beautiful than the Nike...
...morticians are already poking at the carcass of Harvard’s political firmament, recently pronounced dead by a council of alumni of the Class of 1967. The coronary report seems to indicate a deadly tonic of apathy, greed, self-interest, and postmodern irony. But perhaps the biggest threat to Harvard’s political vibrancy isn’t lurking in the hallways of Bain Capital Group or in the sinister transmissions of Stephen Colbert. Perhaps the cause of death was not murder, but suicide. The guilty party? A group nominally committed to “engaging young people...
...changes, Wright could have retained that medium-specific main point. Why, for instance, didn’t he envision Briony as a budding film director or screenwriter? While this change would have altered the novel’s plot, it would have faithfully realized McEwan’s greatest postmodern aim. “Atonement” fails as a film adaptation by ignoring the text’s greater purpose and, instead, latching onto its captivating story. But it ultimately succeeds as a film. The prestigious Venice Film Festival already honored “Atonement” in August...
...Boston Opera House yesterday. The historic venue will host thousands of theater-going Bostonians every weekend from now until the new year, officially ringing in the holidays with ballet’s major cash cow. But for the frugal-minded collegiate crowd (who are either too cold or too postmodern to leave the dorms for a night at the ballet), there is an alternative Tchaikovsky and E.T.A. Hoffmann fix. Get your hands on a copy of the 1977 American Ballet Theater production of “The Nutcracker.” It remains the most popular “Nutcracker?...