Word: aestheticized
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Originally the Museum of Germanic Art, the Busch-Reisinger has accumulated over the past century an impressive holding of post-1880 German art with a particular emphasis on German Expressionism. The stark curation and sparing use of didactic wall texts are appropriately austere, boldly offsetting the colorful effusiveness of Gerhard...
But far greater than the aesthetic or moral shock of the exhibit may be its political repercussions. Here New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has raised a stink of his own. The mayor cut the museums municipal funding of $7 million annually, citing his belief that public funding should not...
They all more or less know how to work a room, and a few members relay stories of their escapades abroad. Several of the guys, their friends confide, are players. Whether on campus or off campus, "Chicks dig the duds." The Kroks still display a framed photograph of a concert...
Cosmetic lasers can now zap away everything from bikini hair and tattoos to spider veins and liver spots. They can eliminate crow's-feet around the eyes and fine lines around the mouth. Dentists even use lasers to brighten teeth. A projected 3.4 million aesthetic laser procedures will be performed...
This analogy of fashion to literature allows Hollander one of her chief weapons in her struggle to make fashion criticism as respectable an endeavor as literary criticism. She insists on the personal and inward aspect of fashion, the poetic dimension, rather than seeing, as fashion's attackers do, mindless conformity...