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Word: aestheticize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the poem, Murray sympathetically and sometimes even bitterly reconstructs what she considers are the primary reasons Annie hasn't found the place in history that she deserves, ultimately blaming Annie's age and gender for her rejection from collective memory. Old women simply don't beautiful symbols make, and...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Niagara Falling | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

Although often over-dramatic and one-sided, the poem as a whole attempts to reconstruct without decoration or artifice the story of a bypassed heroine. Delicate Homeric fingers of rosy dawn definitely don't reach up to sooth the reader's discerning aesthetic; instead, Murray evocatively and sympathetically describes a...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Niagara Falling | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

The most admirable aspect of this production was its willingness to take risks. The stage itself was not only a grand aesthetic risk--with its maze of entrances, Ptydepe graffitied walls, a slide, a crooked door and a rope swing reserved for Gross' boyhood digressions--it also proved a physical...

Author: By Paul Cantagallo and Patti Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: You Won't Be Able to Read This | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

"I don't think that one has any lesser demands in terms of the quality of the argument," Wrangham says. "The two areas I see being added are dramatic and aesthetic content."

Author: By John P. Posch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Publish Popular Or Perish | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

In black slang, being "bougie," derived from bourgeois, means being socially pretentious. It fits Lawrence Otis Graham to a tee. His book, Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class (HarperCollins; 418 pages; $25), is the literary equivalent of the nose job Graham obtained so that he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bougie Like Me | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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