Word: impressionism
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Such moments supposedly provide insight into a hidden reality. In a flash they divulge the inner self, the man behind the mask. They are video epiphanies, what media wizards call a "defining moment." The viewer does not so much receive information as he does an impression. From that impression an...
By Friday, however, Bush seemed eager to avoid the impression he was dwelling on the matter. "I don't want to go into it," he told TIME Correspondent David Beckwith as they flew across Iowa. "I don't want to dwell on it. I don't want to discuss it...
The flowers' appeal, though, was restricted to paperweight collectors; not a world of the arts, but more one of solid, practical investment, rather like that of collecting Christmas plates. Eight years ago, Stankard began encasing his flowers in a crystal block about six inches high, three inches wide. As this...
In the kingdom of television, there are a thousand different styles, rituals, protocols. Every Sunday, for example, ABC-TV's David Brinkley welcomes a guest with not one, not two but three ceremonial expressions of welcome, a bouquet of courtesy that is positively Japanese: "Mr. Secretary, thank you for being...
Then there is the man himself. If his clothes are sexy, so is he -- dark and sardonic, with a wicked smile, an outrageous wink and a laughing manner. "He looks like Brando; he is pantheroid, catlike," says Anne Hollander, author of the scholarly Seeing Through Clothes. "He is sexy in...