Word: bourgeoise
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Perhaps the phallus-breakers of Harvard Yard were reacting with bourgeois conventionality in labeling challenging art as subversive. Or maybe they were acting on some radical women’s liberation agenda that requires the destruction of visible symbols of male virility.
When the Crimson Sports Grille closed its doors in summer 2001, Harvard’s aspiring hedonists were forced to find another location to fulfill their search for drinkin’, fightin’, and whorin’. The Grille had been a haven for Harvard students to indulge in...
Though its pace drags and its tone is too unvarying, the movie shares the sweet melancholy of the novel. Both versions evoke a wistful longing for the irretrievable drama of youth. Teenage pals Ma (Liu Ye) and Luo (Chen Kun), inheritors of the bourgeois crimes of their doctor parents, are...
We’ve all known for years Republicans are capitalist bourgeois pigs, but this week I finally stumbled upon verifiable proof in a link on the Republican National Committee homepage. The linked site—so nuanced in its absurdity—proves undoubtedly the Republican Party is but...
This imputes to the European-born director an intention not entirely supported by his work. But writer-director Todd Haynes, whose far from heaven is both a perfect pastiche of and a passionate homage to Sirk, makes the best possible case for him. Haynes encountered sirk when he was studying...