Word: aestheticized
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What this leaves us with, then, is a tremendous show with no greater aspirations than its own exuberance. Because of Breuer's approach, and the failure of the female lead, the play is emotionally and intellectually a nullity; there is fun but no power, a tour de force with no...
Though the Which Way films enunciate the sentiments of comradely conservatism ("Handouts are what you get from the Government; a hand up is what you get from a friend"), their values are more than a bit askew, even for a no-holds-barred comedy. The viewer is to find the...
To be prolific is nothing-it fails to distinguish an artist from a grunion-but Nevelson's abundant output has also been, until quite recently, strictly edited, so that it bears an imposing sense of consistency and energy. There are 80-year-old artists who are content to repeat...
The most compelling illusion in the show seems at first to be a big flat rectangle pasted to a white wall, dark gray in color with perhaps a greenish cast: undifferentiated, banal. But as you approach it, corners appear within its surface, as though reflecting the gallery in which you...
Admittedly, there is not likely to be universal agreement on precisely what talk is superfluous when. The judgment is aesthetic, and tastes vary. Some Americans might regard all sermons, lectures and political speeches as superfluous. Such testiness, however, can be shrugged off as a symptom of hyperactive intelligence. The criteria...