Word: aestheticized
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It's not surprising, given his interest in art, that Acheson considers his football career an aesthetic experience. "There are basically three types of people," he says. "There are artists, those with any kind of creative impulses; there are non-artists, those without any real creative impulses; and there are...
For many of them, treatment is almost as dread as the disease: a mastectomy, which can be both physically and psychologically mutilating. But in recent years, plastic surgeons have devised a number of techniques for reconstructing breasts that reduce the aesthetic and emotional toll.
Even aesthetic and creature comforts are not ignored. An "armoured command vehicle" called Sultan has "a spacious penthouse mounted at the rear," and there is a Vickers division specializing in the interior decoration of warships.
Such men stand out against a near wasteland of postwar French abstraction. Even the best talents involved in it, like Nicolas de Staël (1914-55), now look somewhat mannered and superficial; no wonder that the paintings of the New York School had such a traumatic impact on their...
"Spain has not been able to establish a contemporary society, such as those in neighboring European countries because there is an incapacity to understand change," Galvan said, adding, "there seems to be an aesthetic satisfaction in Spain for the underdeveloped."