Word: aestheticized
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IN MOST INSTANCES, though, King arrives at the not-so-surprising conclusion that few authors can untangle themselves from the bewildering signals of a misunderstood past. Psychoanalysis occasionally helps individual patients but offers small counsel to an emotionally troubled culture. King concludes, rightly, that even Faulkner's "transcendent" achievement in...
"Confusing the simply antisocial with the revolutionary, Mailer develops an aesthetic whose chief temperamental characteristic is a malign machismo, still dear to those in the New Left who have fallen under Mailer's spell in adolescence or continue to confuse Che Guevara with the brassy cliche of the Westerns," she...
While some envision the sport as monotonous and ungainly, Lenz believes the hammer as a strong aesthetic appeal: "It's a beautiful thing to see someone throw the hammer well. A good thrower is fast, strong, and graceful. It's explosive."
THIS IS THE TRUE trash aesthetic. This is every bad movie that you've ever seen on Creature Features or Groovy Ghoulies. This is every Three Stooges comedy wrapped up in one gigantic wad of Larry's hair. This is every lousy cartoon which demented, misguided youths have ever forced...
This is the pure ethic of destruction. This is the punk aesthetic taken to one of its logical extremes. This is pure Americana and its every wrecking crew and garbage detail in American suddenly turned loose on a total mission of annihilation. Add this all up, and the Cramps are...