Word: aestheticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Audiences today still get the irony of the Graduate line, although the aesthetic context has been altered now that, thanks to the rise of the postmodern sort of irony, cheesiness has hip cachet and plastic is no longer anathema. Indeed, the movie's mise-en-scene now has unintended resonances...
Grindhouse movies were bad as in dirty and bad as in awful. But in the '90s bad has been raised to an aesthetic, almost a theology, certainly an industry; and these long-neglected movies are cult artifacts, promoted in revival houses, "special edition" videos and learned books (like Michael J...
Daikatana, ironically, uses the Quake game engine (id happily licenses Carmack's old engines to any developer willing to pay royalties). It's an expanded version of the standard id action game, with a list of new tricks: where Quake had seven weapons, Daikatana promises 35; to Quake's 10...
At the heart of the play is the sparring between Wilde (Michael Emerson) and his courtroom antagonists. The flip, willfully perverse Wildean wit suffered the rude shock of having to defend itself under pitiless legal questioning. Asked if something he has written is true, Wilde replies, "I rarely think anything...
There is art to diplomacy, certainly, but is there diplomatic art? Absolutely. The State Department's Art in Embassies program provides American paintings, sculptures, drawings--even weavings--to U.S. ambassadors who want to spruce up their residences and look tasteful and patriotic. Through agreements with an array of institutions, artists...