Word: aestheticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which isn't to underplay the movie's aesthetic triumph. With its unprecedented blend of narrative innocence and stylistic sophistication, of pseudomythic solemnity and high-tech kick, of abject weirdness and cunning familiarity, Star Wars helped set the standard for what a modern commercial movie can be at its best...
In the package insert, Michael Matessino chronicles the instrumentation and plot background of each piece, offering details about last minute changes, insightful quotes from John Williams and details that will definitely interest the discerning musical aesthetic. At the end of the first half of the soundtrack, extra recorded takes of...
His poetry is not much read today. Perhaps almost no one's is. Dickey was a celebrity once, in the 1960s, when poets (e.g., Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg) could still command a modest fame. In 1966 Dickey won the National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice. Readers made a connection...
Thank you for your superb and insightful story on Microsoft's Bill Gates [BUSINESS, Jan. 13]. I especially liked the way Walter Isaacson prodded Gates to think "philosophically," which he eventually did. Gates really scares me. Society should not allow any one person to amass as much economic power as...
Is high culture dead in America? Or have TIME's aesthetic taste buds gone dead? If all you can offer for "The Best Theater of 1996" is Rent as an updated opera, then American culture has indeed taken a dive. And as far as music is concerned, what happened to...