Word: canonized
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...Arguably the greatest filmmaker to die last year, Bruce Conner, 74, was a full-service artist, creating assemblages, working in photography and drawing, and creating seminal works in the canon of truly independent cinema. His 1958 A Movie (comprising 12 minutes of found footage subversively edited into a meditation on sex and death) and the 1962 Cosmic Ray (with a stripper dancing to Ray Charles' What'd I Say) birthed a subgenre of avant-garde films and inspired the '60s wave of multimedia art in concert halls and discos. (Conner also designed light shows at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom...
...Tale of the Three Brothers" (which already appeared in full in Deathly Hallows) and "The Warlock's Hairy Heart." Beedle joins Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and, basically, all the movies as one of the minor but undeniable pleasures of the Potter canon. It's a book of meta-fairy tales - fairy tales for people who already live in a fairy-tale world where dragons and goblins are real. (Read "Why Harry Potter Rules...
...LOSING THE CANON...
...Although the Norton Anthology of English Literature will no longer be required to sit on the bookshelves of every English concentrator, those who are loyal to the English canon may still be able to get their fix: courses in the “Poets” and “Shakespeares” categories would explore foundational works like “Hamlet” and “The Canterbury Tales...
...English concentrators said that they hoped the new program of studies would still expose them to a broad range of English literature over time, allowing them to identify their passions within the canon...