Word: acceptibility
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...like Nomura Hitoshi's "'Moon' Score" (a piece of music written to the phases of the moon) or Wei Guangqing's "Suicide Series" (a series of photographs demonstrating different ways of killing oneself) are at once emotionally haunting, spiritually probing and subtly ironic. It is this whimsical refusal to accept easy categorization which both characterizes conceptualism and makes this exhibit such a delight...
...grew up with that. Hip-hop's language and messages are normal now to people, normal to someone my son's age. I remember a time before that came in. To me it's still hard for that to become normal, it's hard for me to accept that. It 's hard for me not to see it as another commercialization of something, making money through exploitation. Now I could be wrong. But I could also not be wrong. That's about the words. I'm not wrong about the music...
...Duke Ellington was denied the Pulitzer Prize. You were the first to accept...
...greatest artists are always those that are many men thick. That's a constant in the world of art. We're in a renaissance. The greatest musicians I know accept the whole history of music. Marcus Roberts, who I named before, pianist Cyrus Chestnut, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, these are artists who deal with all of the music. They're not being addressed properly, but they're here. The archaic thought that abstraction is the only way to be modern, I don't know who still believes in that. Also, the idea that one period of something defines it instead...
...noted in my previous order, Florida law grants to the Secretary, as the chief elections officer, broad discretionary authority to accept or reject late filed returns. The purpose and intent of my order was to ensure that she in fact properly exercised her discretion rather than automatically reject returns that came in after the statutory deadline...