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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Everyone worked together and finally after all that hard work we just managed to channel and use that energy to show everyone what we can do," said Megan L. Gaffney '02, the business manager for the Callbacks...
...room. Everything in a movie has to make a statement, everything has to be there for a reason--otherwise, don't have it there. It's the old theatrical saying, that if you have two crossed swords over the fireplace in the first act, you damn well better use them in the third act. And that's the point...
...look it up. Postmodernism is "literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles," page 1069 of my dictionary boldly asserts. Modernism, it tells me back on ol' 876, is "the use of nontraditional innovative forms of expression." All the way over on 1434, I find that traditionalism is--drum roll, please--"adherence to tradition." If I connect the dots correctly, that means postmodernism is literature that reacts against rebellion to tradition. This would be what exactly? The Pope's latest book? Pamphlets from the Daughters of the American Revolution? Alan Keyes campaign posters...
...just as startling and symbolic as the beginning, and also makes use of wine glass imagery. The wine glasses lower from the ceiling, and the guests drop them once more, as if forever abandoning the notion of a happy marriage, leaving the bride, her husband and her lover in the center of the stage. Overall, the piece has lots of impact and emotional appeal--the viewer can't help but wonder what is haunting the characters and why their relationships aren't working...
...Internet has its version of road rage: impulsive anger expressed from inside a capsule of anonymity, an aggressive connection made from the safety of disconnection. In recent days, a Stanford University study found that the Internet is dangerously atomizing American society. "The more hours people use the Internet," said Norman Nie, a principal investigator for the study, "the less time they spend with real human beings...