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...always felt guilty because I was missing out on "high culture," acquiring a taste for art, music, even opera. There is a certain mystique, an aura, around the arts considered high culture. To understand these arts is to be learned, refined. The mystique hovering around these arts may even be due to their inability to be understood and fully appreciated by the mass audiences who frequent Hollywood blockbusters. After all, we can read about history and literature, but learning to appreciate the arts may require something more than just reading, perhaps a special insight. And because Harvard does give...
...group has leaned toward urban terrorism, much of it aimed at the U.S. It hurled a rocket-propelled grenade at the American embassy, lobbed mortars at the U.S. ambassador's residence and bombed several Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Lima. Those acts initially imbued the guerrillas with an aura somewhere between Robin Hood mystique and radical chic. In 1990 the group staged its most spectacular stunt when nearly 50 members tunneled out of the Canto Grande prison near Lima, supposedly the nation's most secure jail. The crowning indignity was that the operation was videotaped by the escapees, who included...
...Nebraska who had the unstoppable triple option offense and the aura. It was Nebraska going for a third straight title. It was Nebraska with the out-of-control image; star linebacker Terrell Farley was suspended for his second D.U.I., and departed tailback Lawrence Phillips personified a domestic violence problem...
...innocent aura coexists, in person, with a more knowing and world-weary affect (after all, she was raised by artist parents in a loft in Manhattan's SoHo district and has been acting professionally since age 6). In one breath she confidently states a sophisticated opinion of Juliet ("more one-dimensional than people might expect") and in the next worries about how her looks are discussed in the press...
Bold presence that goes unnoticed--now there is something Liam Neeson knows a bit about. With a 6-ft. 4-in. frame and a face that is memorably poetic in its asymmetry, Neeson, 44, has always possessed movie-star aura. But it took Hollywood nearly a decade to figure out how to capture it. By the time Neeson landed the role of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg's monumental Holocaust elegy, the Irish actor had already appeared in 23 mostly unheralded films. And yet, even though Schindler's List won Neeson the kind of praise and splashy recognition (including...