Word: postmodernist
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...movie has gone goofily gothic--more Wes Craven than Truman Capote--and you may be convinced that director Raimi meant The Gift to be a deadpan postmodernist horror comedy. The sole evidence to the contrary is Blanchett's performance: persuasive, subtle, impeccable. She seems the only guardian of sanity in this good-old-boy Bellevue...
...violent outbursts amid its sullen patches, and plot twists that don't strain plausibility so much as ignore it. By the end, the movie has gone goofily gothic - more Wes Craven than Truman Capote - and you may be convinced that director Raimi meant "The Gift" to be a deadpan postmodernist horror comedy. The sole evidence to the contrary is Blanchett's performance: persuasive, subtle, impeccable. She seems the only guardian of sanity in this good-old-boy Bellevue...
...leave her Harvard post as chair of the Committee on Social Studies for a professorship at Yale in a new political science department program. Benhabib, who is on sabbatical this semester, is one of Harvard's top political philosophers. She is widely recognized for her work in feminist theory, postmodernist theory, continental philosophy and political philosophy...
...effort to achieve perspective on the subject of citizens being sore with one another, my mind has wandered to 16th-century France. There, for nearly 50 years, French Catholics and French Protestants attacked one another with conscienceless enthusiasm. The to and fro of the Gore and Bush camps, the postmodernist recounts of the Sunshine State, the genteel animadversions of James Baker and David Boies on the Sunday talk shows - all these represent quite an advance from the massacre on the eve of the feast of St. Bartholomew, when the Catholics cut down 3,000 Huguenots as part of the sectarian...
...When the political process enters the courtroom, the truth becomes malleable, corruptible, ultimately unknowable. This is American politics in a state of deconstruction - a form of postmodernist cardsharking...