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Word: aestheticizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHOTOGRAPHY: THE SHADOWS KNOW | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Share Crimson Cash | 2/9/1996 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Fabian Giraldo, | Title: Costumes Shine in Hello | 2/8/1996 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: The Grille Gratifies | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF THE UNION: ARE WE BETTER OFF? | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

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