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...became clear relatively quickly, however, that the presumable motive for the meeting—a discussion of how best to “communicate beauty??—masked an exercise in negative aesthetics. No tourist will ever mistake the Vatican for the MoMA; the church’s vision for a new art seems mostly to be an art that won’t offend said church...
...doctrine with the overly serious, overly desexualized, and inadequately shaven activists of the ’60s and ’70s. Even those girded with feminist theory, and fully aware of the dangers of the feminine mystique, have refused to relinquish their fidelity to the heterosexual culture of beauty??myself included...
...gentle birth sheathed in goatskin and tulle.” The latter image is one of several in this collection that allude to our distant, primeval past. Yet these distinctive images are lost by dilution, by the worst kind of overkill. Take this stanza from “Underground Beauty??: “Inside, tiny sparkling / mineral, gypsum flowers, / lettuce and coral, shy trident / bats, fairy shrimp- / eggs which hatch after fifteen years.” Poets have used lists to great effect before. But unlike Gerard Manley Hopkins in “Pied Beauty...
...abandon the pursuit of happiness’ and I would say ‘believe in fairy tales.’ But we like that because that’s what life is. Some days you’re going to say ‘promote beauty?? and some days you’re going to say ‘abandon the pursuit of happiness.’” On the success of her film, Parise said, “My hope is that people will come to the movie and they’ll enjoy...
Chris Cooper is one of those actorswho, despite co-starring roles in dozensof films, may trigger only a vague mentalimage. From the homophobic colonel in“American Beauty?? to the villainous CIAboss in “The Bourne Identity,” Cooper hasthe ability to slip quietly and completelyinto a role. This ability is prominentlyshowcased in independent director IraSachs’ new film, “Married Life,” in whichhe plays Harry Allen, a gentle and romanticman who decides that the only way toleave his wife without breaking her heartis to murder...