Word: aestheticized
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Ten Nights in A Barroom. A temperance drama of the decline and fall of a saloon-keeper and the alternating fortunes of his customers. More of a social historical document than an aesthetic success, the piece is played dead seriously but turns out to be quite enjoyable, and, of course...
Surgical Revolution. Doctors have been experimenting since the 1950s with techniques to rebuild amputated breasts with grafts of fatty tissues and implants. Their initial efforts were often unsuccessful. The earlier implants, which consisted of chemically inert plastics, were of a firmer consistency than normal breast tissue and were aesthetic failures...
Texas-born Robert Wilson, 31, is one of the theater's most lauded aesthetic anarchists - a modern child of Dada. While his current experiment is called A Letter to Queen Victoria, it has nothing to do with Queen Victoria. She does appear briefly in the person of Wilson'...
This kind of relationship between the military and the aesthetic is almost unimaginable today: transpose it to America and you have a Pentagon lobbyist fiddling with a watercolor kit. We think of art as the product of mercantile classes. Yet one of the supreme moments in Japanese culture was almost...
The politics and culture of this time were dominated by three exquisitely discriminating and utterly ruthless daimyo, or warlords, who set out to unify the 200 squabbling fiefdoms of Japan: Oda Nobunaga and his successors, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Like the humanist condottieri of 15th century Italy, they built...