Word: aestheticized
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In particular, many of architect Sert's aesthetic features have been scrapped due to funding cutbacks and inflation. The 420-foot arcade running east-west through the center of the building was going to be decorated with art works: The terraces of the office wing were suppose to have been...
EVEN THE MOVIES say "War is hell". What the movies rarely tell us is that war is ugly. Surely, we all understand, at least abstractly, the ethical ambivalence involved in ending life for the sake of the living. Still, for generations of Americans raised on hazy memories of "righteous" wars...
In his scatological rereadings of history, Reed comes up with an idea called Neo-HooDooism, a pastiche of an imaginary, ancient African aesthetic and a rip-off from the HooDoo coven of black poets to which Reed belongs. What plot there is to Mumbo Jumbo deals with a search for...
Broad, who has been chief since Kaufman's retirement in 1965, knows relatively little about building a house and lets others make technical innovations and aesthetic improvements. He gives great autonomy to the company's local division heads, and many have become paper millionaires through the K. & B...
Unlike Britain's National Theater, which under Laurence Olivier has become an actors' company, or the Royal Shakespeare Company, which under Peter Hall became a directors' company, Papp's Public Theater is first of all a writers' company. "Actors' theaters are dead theaters," he...