Word: avant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zappa, whose avant garde music has consistently freaked out generations of rock fans, will defend the right of musicians to express themselves freely without the threat of censorship, said David C. Michael '87, vice-chairman of the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics...
...most highly regarded of Stirling's West German works is the Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. Avant-garde critics of architecture have lauded the new museum addition...
...Arthur M. Sackler Museum, the latest addition to the architectural potpourri in the Quincy and Broadway Street area, has already caused ripples of both enthusiastic approval and emphatic disdain amongst avant-garde architectural critics...
...sure, the teen flick genre has been outrageously successful, not because the movies are so bad, but because their essential badness in itself serves as a powerful but unwitting critique of middle-class mores. The movies' phallocentricity allows them to literally epater la bourgeoisie. And that, as avant garde flick fans know, is radical and bitchin...
...heroes are Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, the prince and princess of the avant-garde underworld. Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, Warhol and Sedgwick comprise but one pair of a cult-worshipped court of legendary hearts handed the scepter and deposed just as quietly by generations of kids searching casually for heroes. I ask her why she likes Warhol...