Word: avant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This latest stylistic achievement of the septuagenarian Ashbery can in no way be misidentified as "autumnal," as a recent review in the Kirkus Review put it. Rather, it is a fresh voice from a master of contemporary avant-garde poetry, who has capitalized on the current trend toward the acceptance of a broader definition of free form verse...
...anti-establishment, one needs an establishment. The music industry and American culture "discovers" the margins and transforms the avant garde into a marketable product. There must be a reconciliation between preserving core values and expanding one's marketablity. The danger is whether hip hop can still be a critique of culture, or whether it will be consumed by culture...
...films of the '70s. Well, they were B movies too. And Gone With the Wind was just a soap opera." Lucas thinks of himself as a Marin County rebel against the Hollywood empire, in a cadre of Bay Area filmmakers that includes Francis Coppola, Philip Kaufman and such visionary avant-guardians of the '60s as Bruce Conner, Will Hindle and Scott Bartlett (his shorts Offon and Metanomen ushered in the digital...
...learning the difference between net and gross points, nothing prepares an actor better than prepubescent training in the theater of the absurd. At age 11, Stiles wrote a letter to the director of New York City's artsy La Mama Theater asking to audition. Soon she was appearing in avant-garde plays and lip-synching to recorded dialogue...
...hardly seemed cut out to be a workingman's revolutionary. A Cambridge University don with a flair for making money, a graduate of England's exclusive Eton prep school, a collector of modern art, the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of a life-insurance company, later a director of the Bank of England, married to a ballerina, John Maynard Keynes--tall, charming and self-confident--nonetheless transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social progress...