Word: artist
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...Drugs, Rock & Roll Call Eric Bogosian a performance artist, monologist, short-story writer or even playwright. By whatever name, he is one of the shrewdest contemporary critics of the phony, the self-serving, the amoral and the damned. This off-Broadway collection of skits is a caustic vision of greed and substance abuse...
Worst Synching Feeling Milli Vanilli, who won a 1989 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, had to admit not only that they didn't sing live onstage but also that it wasn't their own voices on their albums. Goodbye Grammy. As for their earlier boast that they were better than Bob Dylan and the Beatles? Well, sure -- as dancers...
Arnold didn't just dream; he made it happen. Like a visionary athlete, artist or businessman (all of which he would eventually become), he devised a plan and climbed the mountain. More precisely, he became the mountain. "My parents wanted me to play soccer or be a skier," he recalls. "But I chose body building. It was a very American sport, and I thought, 'If I do well, it could take me to America.' " It was also a very American way for a boy to create a superman in his own image. Following Nietzsche's law ("That which does...
Baldwin handles the problem of being a Black artist in America in many of his novels including Another Country. Rufus is a drummer who kills himself because he can not escape the categorization as a Black artist, not just an artist. Rufus tries to live outside the label that others have given him but he fails. His frustration leads him to commit acts of violence against those he loves and eventually himself...
...aesthetics are, however, a crucial part of Pontifell's vision. He describes his books as "excessively beautiful to the touch, to the eye and even to the nose." His mother, a sculptor and artist, illustrated the Cronkite book, and he himself designs the gilt tooling on the leather editions, although he sends them to upstate New York to be worked...