Word: postmodernist
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...maybe he's experimenting with a new form of postmodernist performance art, or put-on, to get back in the spotlight. "People haven't been talking about Tom Cruise like they have in the past couple of weeks," says veteran publicist Liz Rosenberg. "I mean, [his public affection for Holmes] is a little freaky to watch, but that's what enthralls people about it." As an admiring publicist put it, "As usual, Tom has the media exactly where he wants them." That's for sure. All he did was spend an hour with Oprah--and, look, we wrote a page...
...south of France (which you needn’t tell them about)…We will not get along if you have anti-American leanings (which does not mean that you have to support Dubya’s Administration). Nor will we get along if you have postmodernist sympathies. Please don’t be hurting for cash; that interferes with the plan to frolic in Provence...
...others in attendance, Wilson’s “lightning” quote could have applied to Miller’s masterpiece—except that the postmodernist deejay would likely object to the notion that “truth” can be objectively defined...
Figurative artists have always quoted from the past, but Currin, like a good postmodernist, puts his quotes in big quotation marks. Walk through any of the later galleries in the Whitney show, and what you experience is a sustained conceptual flutter, a continual flickering between high and low, Mannerism and kitsch, Parmigianino and sleazerino. It's a strategy that makes his work radical and familiar at the same time, like an especially snappy new running shoe, which in any market is never a bad idea...
...might call Andersonville, that cheerless Southern California tract of warehouses, alleys and unwelcoming apartments whose prisoners suffer the blind assaults of grim fate without a murmur, without even the consolations of, say, existentialism to lighten their burden. This movie is the writer-director's most airless exploration of this postmodernist's Yoknapatawpha County, an antimovie that rejects even the most minimal obligations to character and plot that commercial films are supposed to respect. Stuff happens to Anderson's people. They just keep soldiering...