Word: aestheticized
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Leis last week bagged another saboteur of Cincinnati morals: Larry Flynt, 34, the brassy publisher of Hustler, a three-year-old entry in the crowded skin-magazine business. It happened after a five-week trial, in which lawyers debated the aesthetic qualities of pinup photos, medical and literary experts lectured...
This type of company probably couldn't have existed twenty years ago. The dance world then was too polarized between the spheres of ballet and modern, and modern choreographers themselves were divided; dances were ideological statements. Today Lubovitch takes for granted the freedom to work in any style; his dancers...
The aesthetic embodied in "Marimba," a 1976 work set to Steve Reich's "Music for Mallet, Instruments, Voices and Organ," is that of repetitive imagery. The intensity of repetition leads to clearer seeing, deeper insight; it's a curiously challenging boredom. The unfamiliar is so predictable as to become unexpected...
ALL AROUND US are signs that rock 'n' roll is getting old, and not just old but respectable too. Elvis Presley once outraged an older generation's aesthetic and moral tastes with his youthful exuberance and the sexual swivel of his hips. These days Las Vegas audiences pay huge sums...
King Cupcake. It is a great technical achievement (TIME, Oct. 25). It is also an aesthetic mistake, particularly disappointing to those who had seen the movie's highly promising first half at press screenings earlier this year. It was Aristotle's prescription that tragedy should evoke a blend...