Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I waited, and beneath by two hands now clasped around one heavy knee...felt like some living prehistoric bone full of solidity, aesthetic richness, latent athleticism.
Rouge on venerable cheeks? Chrome instead of hallowed woodwork? We think not. To us, the changes are functional as well as aesthetic. They keep the looks of TIME current with its spirit, which was never antique.
Then in 1965, they renewed their friendship at the Napoleon House, a French Quarter bar. They discussed the imminent construction of an elevated Mississippi riverfront expressway, which would have been an aesthetic catastrophe for the graceful Vieux Carré. They launched a thorough investigation of the project and within two...
Some movies are so inventive and powerful that they can be viewed again and again and each time yield up fresh illuminations. Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is such a movie. Based on Anthony Burgess's 1963 novel of the same title, it is a merciless, demoniac...
For a while Schlesinger and Gilliatt puzzled over how to portray Bob and Daniel's affection. Rather than being recondite, they finally decided to film it as simply as possible. Just as two friends would shake hands upon meeting, so the two are shown greeting each other with a kiss...