Word: pleasingness
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"Of course, pleasing the audience is important, but after a while, your body and mind become exhausted. There's got to be a resource that constantly pushes you through the day to day practices. And God and Christ are the sources of strength for me."
For two decades, however, an avant-garde of populist architectural historians has been looking at the strip and its larger-than-life iconography without conventional middlebrow contempt. The movement's manifesto is Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Robert Venturi's examination of crowd-pleasing architectural symbolism and buildings designed primarily...
Matt Buchanan has written a varied and pleasing musical score, especially effective during the battle scene. Occasionally though, the music is played over several scenes of dialogue, an annoying innovation apparently taken from TV. It ought to have been left there. At one point, the cast makes an ill-advised...
The Chicago influence continues to spread. Steppenwolf is now represented on Broadway by an uneven but crowd-pleasing, hyperkinetic production of Pinter's The Caretaker, directed by John Malkovich, who was a 1985 Oscar nominee for his supporting role in Places in the Heart. Steppenwolf Artistic Director Gary Sinise will...
* "I like it," said Andrew M. Rappe '86. "I like the color of the brick and the shape of the building. It is aesthetically pleasing."