Word: aestheticized
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And clear-eyed too. Whether they are veterans like Brady or Thompson, who at / 42 is in the bright midst of a career that started in the mid-'60s; or upstarts like Whitley, 30; or standard bearers like Himmelman, 31, who is Bob Dylan's son-in-law and has...
"We're Disney. We've got to have the biggest, the best, the most tasteful," says Eisner. Most tasteful is a new Disney superlative, yet taste and aesthetic surprise and a certain rigor are what make the recent architectural fantasies more than Vegas kitsch or shopping-mall saccharine.
He hated the bogus mysticism that clung to interpretations of American art in the '50s -- the cult of the heroic personality, of expressive blood and guts, of the Artist as Fate-Defying Existentialist. "My painting represents the victory of the forces of light and peace over the powers of darkness...
Jamison's approach to running the troupe differs in some respects from Ailey's -- he encouraged dancers to discover their own mistakes, she is more direct about what she wants; he shied away from fund raising and publicity, she embraces both -- but their artistic goals are the same. "Her aesthetic...
Americans, especially women, have become captives of this damaging aesthetic standard. Just consider Julia Roberts. In an earlier era she would have been considered a victim of starvation. "More than 70% of women say they feel fat, but only 23% are truly overweight," says Dr. Arnold Andersen, a psychiatrist at...