Word: nostalgia
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Jimenez is also pleased by the larger crowds, although she expressed nostalgia for earlier times when the crowd was more knowledgeable. "Many people now come just to be seen," she complained. "I think we are losing part of the art of the bullfight, because people are not interested anymore in what happens between the bull and the matador...
Oscar sees his current band's mission as simple: defending the Cuban sound. In 10 to 15 years, adds the bandleader Jesús, there won't be any Cuban music left on the island. It will all be in foreign countries, stagnant nostalgia acts like the kind that spun off from the Buena Vista Social Club album. That seems a dire prediction, but a Thursday night in Havana makes you wonder how Cuban music will survive. On Avenue G, the roqueros gather to get high and watch rock videos on makeshift outdoor screens. On the Malecón in front...
...read simply “The End” and “Movie,” or taking a clip of countdown reel as the entire substance of his work “Ten Second Film”—there is a kindness, a sense of nostalgia and good humor that the artist brings to his work that precludes strong criticism or hostility in favor of eccentric homage.Taking imagery into consideration, Conner is obsessed with the female form. The sixteen-minute pseudo-loop piece, 1973’s “Marilyn Times Five...
Pforzheimer House Masters Sue and James J. McCarthy announced early yesterday morning that this year will be their last as the gatekeepers of the College’s most phonetically unfriendly House. The announcement, although not entirely unexpected, was met with a wave of nostalgia from students close to the couple, who noted the McCarthys’ diverse talents and knack for the House mastership. “They’re the heart and soul of Pfoho,” said Pforzheimer HoCo co-Chair Elizabeth B. Hadaway ’09. “They have always been...
...books are set,” Hannah says. “I set out to do something similar, to create a world that can encompass many variables, but is still one hermetically sealed world.” Many of Hannah’s pieces carry an air of nostalgia and a sense of times long past. “Kickball,” for example, portrays the longing for childhood as three boys in old-fashioned attire kick around a ball. “Duncan Hannah’s work is a curious mixture of subtle and strong emotion...