Word: aestheticized
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The project was long overdue, as the dorms, though livable, were in serious need of improvements to resolve structural and aesthetic problems. Given only the summer months during which no students inhabited the dorms, the time constraints were formidable.
Working on the book triggers in Margaret profound discontent with the state of her life. Dissatisfied with domesticity, no longer content to be utterly reliant upon her husband, she begins challenging previously assumed verities. Convinced that her husband is having an affair with one or more of his undergraduates, she...
Rameau's Niece has some redeeming moments, Schine has a good eye for detail and for capturing the essence of a scene, it is becoming her own aesthetic signature. Ultimately, the work crumbles under the weight of its unwieldy structure and its astonishing social anachronisms.
Across the Borderline is, indeed, like a more contemporary and personalized version of Nelson's smash album of pop standards, Stardust -- a songbook that Nelson transforms into something as intimate as a diary. Stardust pointed the way to some dire aesthetic directions: if only its duet with Julio Iglesias could...
Broadway has welcomed gay material before. But a breakthrough in unabashed candor and commercial viability came with last season's best musical, Falsettos, which centers on a father who leaves his wife and son to take up with a male lover who dies of AIDS. While it sounds grim, the...