Word: aestheticized
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For all the American background. Smith remains a very English artist. No matter what the style, English art has never felt like American, and one of the differences has to do with sociability. Smith's work is quite conversational in its ease of style. Like Caro's or...
Few lives, in fact, provide a more poignant illustration of those contradictions than that of the Soviet composer who died at 68 of heart disease outside Moscow. Along with Stravinsky and Prokofiev, Shostakovich was one of the masters of contemporary Russian music. Throughout his long creative life, his works went...
For nostalgia buffs, the evening's highlight was the return to the U.S. (after 15 years' absence) of a legendary ballerina from A.B.T.'s early days, Alicia Alonso, the founder and director of the National Ballet of Cuba. Now 53, Alonso provided more emotional than aesthetic delight...
The blameworthy director is Michael Rudman, but the greater responsibility lies with Papp. A public subsidy is a public trust. So is a private grant. These ought to be regarded as incentives to dramatic excellence, not as an opportunity to fob off shoddy aesthetic goods on the gullible.
Yes, there is something better than biking-walking. For physical and psychological health and aesthetic and adventurous pleasure, walking is second to none.