Word: aestheticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Norris, a Winthrop House resident who concentrates in History, likes his pierces because of their aesthetic appeal.
Arguably, exercise and reasonable dieting offer benefits beyond the purely aesthetic. However, women aspire to a physical ideal that many body types cannot shape themselves into, no matter how much they exercise or how much celery they eat. Yet women are taught to place more value on being conventionally attractive...
Part of the responsibility for this failing must fall on Ambassador Loeb, who has assembled an amateur, private collection rather than definitive scholarly statement on Danish painting. But Peter Nisbet, the curator of the Busch-Reisinger, should have made a more coherent selection from Loeb's collection. With some nobel...
Today almost every big-city downtown has new skyscrapers that endeavor to look like old skyscrapers. Almost every suburb has a shopping center decorated with phony arches, phony pediments, phony columns. Two decades after Venturi proposed, with the intellectual's standard perverse quasi-affection, that Vegas could be a beacon...
Then he tumbled into another trench of depression and Nembutal. Ordinary politics couldn't reconcile Genet's leftist attachment to the dispossessed and his infatuation with a world of muscular order. The civic-minded gay activism he saw emerging in his later years was too middle class for him, one...