Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, the bridge authorities make it easy for the jumper. Roving uniformed patrols peel an occasional eye for prospects. But, principally for aesthetic reasons, the kind of barrier that radically reduced leaps from Manhattan's Empire State Building, for instance, has never blighted the beauty of the Golden Gate...
As the Hollywood directorial debut of Harold Prince, this disastrous film represents a vertiginous descent from bravos to catcalls. Earlier this year, Director-Producer Prince won just acclaim for his scintillating musical, Company. Guessing at the aesthetic motivations behind Something for Everyone is a speculative pastime, but ever since his...
Russ Meyer describes with immediacy and candor the ethos of the majoritorian American. He is not an artist, he makes few aesthetic decisions, rather Meyer is a story teller with the same preconceptions and prejudices as his characters. Though his ambitions for film as a creative medium are minimal, Beyond...
The Hollywood studio system operates like a game of big-stakes roulette. You miss a few, win big on one number and then, as often as not, play it again to disastrous results. Two sequels to successful 20th Century-Fox films demonstrate that from an aesthetic standpoint the whole thing...
There were many Alwyns, and probably none of us knew all of them. Alwyn the critic could sift a ton of aesthetic sludge and produce a column and a half of buoyant wit, pleasure and wisdom. It is stultifying to honor a man with lists, but it would be remiss...