Word: aestheticization
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PLASTIC SURGERY 7,882 Number of breast-augmentation surgeries performed on American teens in 2007, up 55% from 2006 47.4% Percentage of operations that were based on aesthetic preferences; the rest corrected asymmetries or deformities
Sources: ABC; Wall Street Journal; Guardian; A.P.; Bloomberg; Interview Numbers Sources: CNN Money; USA Today; American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (2); A.P.; Encyclopedia Astronautica; BBC (2)
47.4% Percentage of those augmentations that were based on aesthetic preference; others were performed to correct asymmetries or deformities
Sources: CNN Money; USA Today; American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (2); USA Today (2); AP; Encyclopedia Astronautica
Moreover, recent Biennials have had to respond somehow to the provocation of a superheated art market. Even if gallery owners and collectors have gotten a little nervous lately, whistling past the twin graveyards of housing and stocks, money remains a force to be reckoned with. Month after month, deluxe aesthetic...