Word: aestheticized
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Ralph tried a stint at New York's City College but decided to drop out, at least partly, he says, because it was an aesthetic letdown. "There was no wonderful campus with boys and girls wearing V-neck sweaters," he explains, as though he still feels he missed something in...
It has been called "aural wallpaper," "music for the Birkenstock crowd" and "yuppie elevator music." Its titles evoke a holistic, hot-tubbing world: Etosha -- Private Music in the Land of Dry Water, Aerial Boundaries, Nirvana Road. Although its composers include musicians prominent in the rock avant- garde, it is marked...
Soviet experts praised the exchange for cultural and aesthetic reasons, but denied that it will have any political impact. "It is a very pleasing, very significant cultural exchange," said Adam B. Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Sience.
In design and architecture, however, there was a strangely short period of clarity and balance just after the century turned, an aesthetic blip that coincided with the fruitful first few years of the Werkstatte. Hoffmann, Moser and its other founders, repelled by the residual fairy-tale flourishes of aging Jugendstil...
Perhaps the most enthusiastic cheerleaders for books on cassettes are authors and actors. For one thing, the tapes are a fresh source of income: royalties for the writer and as much as $4,000 per project for the professional reader. But there is an aesthetic challenge as well. Says Actor...