To shut off any part of it with terms that render that part opaque, and beyond understanding, is no longer a contemporary mode of thinking.
Parental memoirists, caught somewhere between feelings of disloyalty and the chic contemporary mode that demands that we tell all and affix damages, don't take this stuff lightly.
AT 23 WILLY MOON is a throwback artist in the most contemporary mode, with an ear for melding early rock sounds with synthy production and hip-hop beats.
Wheelwright designs in a contemporary mode, so there was no question of getting what Simmons calls "a heavy Victorian thing your grandmother made by hand," but, as the architect explains, "it wasn't just the style that needed updating".
Because Tolkien's Middle-earth is an imaginary world set in a timeless, prescientific past when the miraculous was magical rather than technological, Mr. Shore had the tricky challenge of evoking mystical and mythological times in an accessible contemporary mode.
The Italian-born Jacopo Godani, another Forsythe alumnus who is better known as a choreographer in Europe than North America, said that he thought ballet had shifted into a more contemporary mode.
Emily Mann's adaptation of "The Cherry Orchard" at the McCarter Theater here opens in somber fashion, with a violin solo in the discordant contemporary mode and the image of a young boy tossing a ball up and down behind a screen so he appears almost as a silhouette.
Operating in a more contemporary mode, Rona Yefman's "Pippi at Abu-Dis" (2008) shows a latter-day Pippi Longstocking (played by the performance artist Tanja Schlander) futilely but energetically trying to dismantle the towering Abu-Dis wall that divides Israel from the Palestinian territories.
