Word: arcadia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their part, the folks in Texas were guarded but quickly won over. Some 130 acts showed up at the Arcadia Theater in Dallas to audition for a slot in the film's talent-show sequence. There was everything from dancing goldfish to a man who set his foot on fire. "No one treated it like The Gong Show," says Byrne. "No matter how outrageous or eccentric their act was, they were very sincere about it. There was a lot of heart in the performances." Byrne discovered that film can be as subtle and malleable as the tracks of a recording...
Students who pay a large tuition to attend Harvard College may be expected to find an environment free from the contamination of faculty rancor and vicious intra-university politics. A good university should be temporary Arcadia and respite before one meets the ravening hypocrisy of American society at large...
...Swiss cheese, grilled cheese and bacon and the lavish club, a three-slice pileup with two "decks" of filling that at its purest includes sliced chicken, bacon, tomato and lettuce. Less orthodox but currently more fashionable in New York City is the $22 club sandwich at the American restaurant Arcadia, where chunks of lobster replace chicken--never mind that the abundance of toast, bacon, tomato and lettuce muffles the lobster's delicate flavor...
...mere presence of visitors, moreover, inevitably strips perfection of its most distinctive blessing: its innocence of self-consciousness. As soon as Eden is told that it is Eden, it becomes something else. These days every Arcadia is tempted to regard itself as a potential commodity, and paradise is less often lost than remaindered. The visitor to Nepal, which was long known as the Forbidden Land and closed to foreigners until as recently as 1951, can now stay comfortably at the Hotel Eden in Katmandu. Just around the corner, he can dine at the Paradise Restaurant or the Earth's Heaven...
...Western states are to Americans what America so often is to the rest of the world, a myth-encrusted land of possibilities. Considered by the imagination, the plains of Texas and the deserts of Utah invite dreams of a footloose future. They promise a fugitive's paradise: not Arcadia, but a clean slate. The dreams are fed by novels and movies and by the bromides of Sunbelt boosterism. They are also prompted by more than a century of Western landscape photography, from the 19th century panoramas of William Henry Jackson and Carleton Watkins to the raptures of Ansel Adams. Such...