Word: aestheticization
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Ever since Suzanne Lenglen breezed to victory in a headband and short-sleeved dress in 1919, Wimbledon has been a showcase for style. This year, it's the on-court officials' turn to wow the crowds. For the first time in Wimbledon's 129-year history, the All England Club...
In his own work, he tries to craft his words into an aesthetic whole, “like a little piece of sculpture,” he says.
The signature films of Subway?s early festivals were spectacularly lurid: Herman Yau?sThe Untold Story from Hong Kong, Takashi Miike?s Visitor Q from Japan. This was the midnight-movie aesthetic run amok, a hazing at the coolest frat house on campus. Inevitably, as they grew older and threw...
Summer rolls without mint; puttanesca without anchovies. Those are the compromises that have made the Cheesecake Factory such an inviting target. One critic derided the "something for everyone" aesthetic as "a repository for all other corporate-restaurant concepts." Overton can live with that. "We just try to be really good...
(2 of 3) Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga have investigated this chance-is-destiny theme before, in Amores Perros and 21 Grams. This time, the canvas is larger, stretching from California and Mexico to Morocco and Japan. The weaving of the three story strands is dextrous; the...