Word: aestheticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For most of his career DeCarava, who was born in 1919, has been a freelance photographer. He was 35 when he had his first critical and commercial success, The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a 1955 book that combines his pictures of Harlem life with text by the poet Langston Hughes...
Loker's is an aesthetic of the cool--or rather, the painfully cool. The Loker look, inspired by that peculiarly Pacific Northwestern fascination with the spare and the electronic, is less a reflection of our tastes than it is an attempt by aging baby-boomers to construct a new-age...
Apart from the singing, acting, and score, Hello Again is a handsome show. Costume designer Jeffrey Scott Burrows, whose recent credits include the SpeakEasy's Twilight of the Golds and Jeffrey, doesn't disappoint in the multi-period aspect of the musical. The Whore's (Carol Stearns) frock, inspired by...
Despite the Grille's fraternity-like decor, the college bar isn't your Rockwellian image of sentimental Americana. Like the students on this campus, the bar's aesthetic hides its real purpose. While the students are, generally, a national brain trust, the Grille is actually the representation of the institutional...
Shift the focus from incomes to consumption, though--pick just about any measure of the good life--and the picture changes beyond recognition. Housing? Between 1970 and 1994 the average new home grew by the equivalent of two 15-ft. by 20-ft. rooms, and 79% of new houses in...