Word: aestheticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mindy Faber's "Delirium" stood out as the most powerful of the previewed films. When the video opens, Faber's mother, draped in a long black housecoat, is pitching herself against moving cars, attempting suicide. With background music, the scene is almost funny, until the audience slowly understands what they...
Her coterie of loyalists expanded considerably once affluent women began to reject the gold-chain-belt opulence of the 1980s. "Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see that they 'get it,"' says Sander, who often speaks with missionary zeal for her aesthetic. "I see so many people following, and...
Along with Bruce Springsteen and Michael Jackson, Madonna was one of the pop-music giants of the 1980s, and she has risked becoming an artifact of that era, like Dynasty and jackets with zippers all over them. On Bedtime Stories, though, she successfully pulls herself out of the time warp...
When Quentin Tarantino was 15, he saw something on TV that changed his life: Pauline Kael. The New Yorker movie critic was being grilled by Tomorrow host Tom Snyder on her rave review of Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and she refused to back down. "I thought...
Jones is not the only black choreographer to resist the aesthetic dominance of the late, great Alvin Ailey, whose masterworks were mostly composed to black music and whose themes were rooted in African-American history. The austere, abstract work of Ralph Lemon, 42, for example, owes a clear visual debt...