Word: bazaar
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Democracy is epitomized by the bazaar or the mall, and this is what the university is becoming. It wants to be inclusive, indiscriminate and accommodating toward every predilection. The university thus admits students less and less according to rigorous standards of individual excellence, and more and more according to the diverse backgrounds and experiences they can import into the student body. In other facets of the university as well, variety is prevailing over quality. Witness the accelerating proliferation of concentrations, special concentrations and sub-concentrations, and the clamor for even more, such as ethnic studies...
...current issue of Harper's Bazaar proclaims that we are entering a new era, the age of an "unintimidating, personalized kind of pretty." What this means is that for the first time in quite a while, models are opening their mouths, cracking a smile and looking in many instances as though they would rather play beach volleyball than snort heroin. So what is one of the greatest assets that a model can possess in this, the latest dawn of the girl next door? Freckles. You will find them all over the faces of such newcomers as Stacey McKenzie (above, center...
...Aladdin searches for his missing father and discovers that Dad is a sort of Darth Vader, but nicer. The songs are wan, and the animation (done in Australia and Japan) isn't as spiffy as the studio's theatrical style. But Williams works harder than ever to create a bazaar of bizarre impressions: Woody and Sly, Hope and Crosby, Groucho and Chico and Brando, instantly repackaged into clever parody...
...social history when ambition and new wealth outstripped utility and taste. Dressler's Grand Cosmo, an architectural and cultural Tower of Babel, is part residence and part theme park. Within its 30 stories and two subterranean levels are a beach, a lake, a model New England village, a Moorish bazaar and a simulated asylum for the insane. Criticized as an example of "the worst excesses of late Victorian eclecticism," Dressler's folly fails spectacularly, a case of too much too late. In the end Dressler completes the illusion and his ruination by hiring actors to play customers...
...company's headquarters, caps an amazing 18 months for the beakish 51-year-old. In November 1994 his exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art drew big crowds and critical plaudits. He was photographed, celebrity-style, in his midnight blue Maserati by Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. His first book, Delirious New York, was rereleased and sold 28,000 copies (not bad for a theoretical treatise on the American city written in the '70s). "I would say he's the most comprehensive thinker in the profession today," says American deconstructivist Frank Gehry. "He's the hope...