Word: acclaiming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kurt Cobain with Emily Dickinson. Their offspring--literate, bitingly introspective, deeply contemptuous of money and fame--would be a lot like Aimee Mann. Because of hard luck and an incurable case of artistic independence, the gifted Los Angeles folk-pop soloist has been left untouched by the wave of acclaim that buoyed Jewel, Tori Amos and the Lilith crowd...
Both Artschwager and Bleckner are contemporary artists who have received a great degree of renown and acclaim. In recent years, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of Artschwagers work and the Guggenheim did the same for Bleckner. This exhibition at Harvard features a small selection of the recent work of each artist. Artschwagers six sculptures, all untitled, were constructed in 1995-1996. Bleckners works in oil on linen, also all untitled, were painted this year. Neither artist provides clues for the viewer as to how to interpret their enigmatic work...
...kids have just waltzed into class, written their test answers on notebook paper, and sat back as their teachers filled in the correct answers on the little bubble forms. And then, clutching their students' miraculously improved test results and passing rates, teachers and principals got raises, promotions and general acclaim...
...disjointed Folklore and Mythology course text. Before embarking on the novel, she commented, "I have to outline it before I start, which kind of takes the fun out of it." This is close to what actually happened, for while her collection of short stories, Flying Leap, received critical acclaim, If I Told You Once lacks the candor, unexpected plots and zany characterizations of her first work. Budnitz's new book emerges as a poorly conceived attempt to weave together mysticism and dramatic human relationships, taking reckless stylistic risks in the process...
Emerson, a freelance journalist and former Wall Street Journal reporter, has received critical acclaim for his 1996 film "Jihad! In America...