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Word: cavorting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well as anyone who has so keen an appreciation for the pomposities, vapidities and idiocies that constitute the murmur of our times. As his chief characters--a former journalist edging into sleazy television infotainment, the journalist's software-entrepreneur wife, the wife's vulpine media-mogul boss--alternately cavort and limp through the very near future, you get deep inside the tent of both old and new media, where the egos are as large and as tasteless as the limos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Isn't It Post-Ironic? | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped as the mannequins cavort and tremble at their shadows, which chase them among the neoclassical columns that decorated their stages and pedestals...

Author: By Marcelline Block, AND CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Visual Arts and Music | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped as the mannequins cavort and tremble at their shadows, which chase them among the neoclassical columns that decorated their stages and pedestals...

Author: By Nadia ANYMONE Michelle berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WOLS Wolfgang Otto Schulze | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped as the mannequins cavort and tremble at their shadows, which chase them among the neoclassical columns that decorated their stages and pedestals...

Author: By Nadia ANYMONE Michelle berenstein, | Title: Wols (Wolfgang Otto Schulze) | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...best description there is for it. Yet another man-remakes-woman Eliza Dolittle story. Yet Another dork-becomes-diva Clueless yarn. Yet another token effort to lightly evaluate the competitive arenas of cutthroat youth culture, a la Varsity Blues. Yet another excuse for beautiful Clearasil poster children to cavort in trendy togs and perform breathtaking cell phone stunts. It screams designer soundtrack and even more designer reality, every honest fiber of your being wants to oppose it. In your snider moments, you deprecate that you could write this screenplay your-self. Let's be honest about it: Robert Iscove...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: She's All That, But He's Even More | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

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