Word: artsyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The plot of "Naked in New York" is quite simple. Jake meets Joanne (Mary-Louise Parker) at Harvard; they have problems after graduation because they want to pursue their won careers. Oh, and they're artsy: he writes plays; she takes pictures. They both have so much artistic fervor, in...
Almost lost in the furor was the play itself, an unflaggingly witty and often moving slice of life among the young, hip and artsy in Calgary, Canada. A gay painter (Michael J. Blankenship), blocked in his work, tries to jolt himself by taking a job as a waiter. To help...
"People here like to cultivate the Bohemian image," Thornton says. "I started smoking after I came to Adams House. I thought it was funny, the artsy image that people have. Smoking was an affectation that I developed in the [house's] Molotov Cafe."
Students are well aware that North House, and the Quad in general, are predominantly Black. Quincy tends to house many Asians. The lack of diversity is not limited to racial characteristics. Adams House is stereotyped as an "artsy" house. Mather and Kirkland are known as "jock houses."
The HFA ethos--equal parts intellectual snobbery and earnest aesthetic evangelism--is personified by Vlada K. Petric, senior VES lecturer and curator of the archive. Petric, a white-haired man with watery blue eyes and a broad, stubborn face, works in a small office plastered with magazine clippings and film...